Starting with
Enterprise Developer 7.0 Patch Update 1, the spool file format has changed. If your spool files were created with an earlier release, and you
are running
Enterprise Developer 7.0 Patch Update 1 or later, you must convert them using the
mfsplcnv utility.
This documentation references the two spool file formats as follows:
- version 1 format
- This is the spool file format used by
Enterprise Developer versions earlier than 7.0 Patch Update 1.
- version 2 format
- This is the spool file format used by
Enterprise Developer version7.0 Patch Update 1 and later.
The
mfsplcnv utility locates your spool files based on the value set for the
Enterprise Server MFSYSCAT environment variable, which must be set before you run
mfsplcnv (see the
MFSYSCAT topic for more information). You must set It creates a backup of your original spool file and a new version in the same location.
Your original spool files are renamed with the file extension
.bak. The new spool files take on the name of the original
.dat file.
mfsplcnv is a command-line utility that you must run from an
Enterprise Developer command prompt.
Parameters
- 1
- Convert spool files to the version 1 format from the version 2 format. Use this only when you have created spool files using
Enterprise Developer version7.0 Patch Update 1 and later, and need to use those spool files with an earlier version of
Enterprise Developer.
- 2
- Convert spool files to the version 2 format from the version 1 format. You must use this option after upgrading to version
7.0 Patch Update 1 or later on all version 1 spool files created using an earlier release.
Note: If your spool files reside in a database environment, it might be quicker to download
SPLJOB.dat to a local disk, run the conversion on the local file, and then upload the converted file.