Saving Spooled Files Using a QALLSPLF *SPL List

How spooled files are saved can impact your restore performance. A way to restore data if the restore performance is not critical to your operation is by using a spooled file list, QALLSPLF *SPL. This is the easiest way of saving all spooled files so they can be restored when migrating to new hardware or in case of a full system restore.

Saving Spooled Files using a QALLSPLF *SPL List

Follow this procedure to use the QALLSPLF *SPL list to save your spooled files:

1. Create the QALLSPLF *SPL list with include entry to save *ALL spooled files.

2. OPTIONAL: Add any additional omits to the QALLSPLF *SPL list.
   
   

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3. Add the QALLSPLF *SPL list to a control group.
   
   

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Running this control group saves all the spooled files with the backup.