Ron Tilby wrote:
 
>Under MPE/iX 5.0 w/PowerPatch #4 is it possible to:
>Store or Copy Input Spool Files from @.IN.HPSPOOL (Deferred Jobs).
>Shutdown the system and do some activity requiring an UPDATE and/or
>START NORECOVERY ie. PowerPatch Install.
>Then Restore or Copy the previously saved input spoolfiles and
>introduce them as jobs.
 
>The problem is that users submit deferred batch jobs on Friday, and don't
>want them to run until Sunday night (after some other weekend
>processing).  If I do a PowerPatch or System Update on Saturday, the
>deferred batch jobs are lost.
 
>The SPIFF OUTPUT command only handles Output Spoolfiles.
>Thanks in advance,
>Ron Tilby
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If you have MPEX from Vesoft you can use the SAVEJOB command to save all
jobs or any valid Vesoft job subset (deferred, executing, etc).  After the
system is back up, you can then execute the DOSAVED command to
re-introduce the jobs into the job queue.  I have had trouble with jobs
streamed from numbered files using this technique in the past, perhaps
Vesoft has fixed this.  If you have Nbspool you can  also save input
spoolfiles (jobs) via the MERGE command (I think) and then re-introduce
the job(s) later via (someother Nbspool) command.