CPC - Spool file issue

[Former Member]

Hi

We just completed a CPC on the production system. All is good except some spool files are unreadable.

We ran the DB4_CVT_EBCDIC_LISTS program but even when we specify an individual user we get hit by the SYSTEM_IMODE_TOO_LARGE error and the program dumps.

Do we have to individually convert each spool file or is there a better way? I checked not 600755 but could not find the answer.

Thanks

Matt

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Volker

We had tested the CPC in the clients SND, DEV & QAS systems before the CPC and not had this error. When we run the DB4_CVT_EBCIDIC_LISTS program on individual spools they still look like garbage.

Is there any way to retrieve the spool files that DB4_CVT_EBCIDIC_LISTS will not convert?

Thanks

Matt

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Matt,

good that you tested - then it is "just bad luck" ;-(

I do not know any way to vonvert properply, when it fails on a single basis ...

If it is SAPscript, this is "working as designed" - but then you should be able to print more or less properly.

For ALI, it should work, but sometimes it doesn't ...

Regards

Volker Gueldenpfennig, consolut international ag

http://www.consolut.net - http://www.4soi.de - http://www.easymarketplace.de

[Former Member]

Hi

Looks like the problem is fixed. When we run DB4_CVT_EBCDIC_LISTS the NEW spool file is garbage but the OLD spool file is fixed!

Thanks

Matt

[Former Member]

Hi Matt,

ok, if this is the case, you misunderstood the program - it always works like this ... but still: sometimes, it seems to fail ...

Regards

Volker Gueldenpfennig, consolut international ag

http://www.consolut.net - http://www.4soi.de - http://www.easymarketplace.de

[Former Member]

Interestingly enough when we run DB4_CVT_EBCDIC_LISTS on some individual spool files the result is still unreadable. Maybe they were generated via sapscript.

[Former Member]

Hi Matt,

that is exactly, why you should test the CPC first and I always tell my customers, that I cannot garantue for the spoolfiles => all you need, you convert to PDF BEFORE the CPC ...

Regards

Volker Gueldenpfennig, consolut international ag

http://www.consolut.net - http://www.4soi.de - http://www.easymarketplace.de