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General / ANYSTORE document not recognized as being either Line Print or AFP, no Large Obj

« on: March 13, 2020, 03:22:12 PM »

Looking for information on considerations towards resolving the issuance of the ARS5418I message issued by ARSLOAD.

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General / ARSYSPIN w/ARSLOAD

« on: May 03, 2018, 09:14:17 AM »

I am attempting to process spool data that does not have an external writer name (WTR) association.  Since we also have a need for backup of the spool content I have elected to implement ARSYSPIN with the "LOADPGM=ARSLOAD" attribute enabled.  The approach envisioned is to run the ARSYSPIN capture file through a process to identify the Application and place it back in spool, with an assigned WTR, for a started task (ARSLOAD) to process.

I have a common Application and ApplicationGroup defined to ARSYSPIN to invoke an AnyStore exit to process the capture file content.  Indexer Information for the common Application is defined to extract the actual ApplicationID and assign it to the "WRITER" parameter of the BPXWDYN subroutine to dynamically allocate a new spool entry with an associated WTR.  From there an ARSLOAD STC would pick the spool entries up and load them into CMOD under the assigned WTR value as the ApplicationID.

Within a capture dataset there can be multiple unique ApplicationIDs.  I had hoped to use BPXWDYN to allocate SYSOUT as described above.  This was based on a concept implemented in the batch environment for a process that is not CMOD related.  In this context, the use of BPXWDYN works exceptionally well.  However, when attempting to use the BPXWDYN within an AnyStore exit the approach seems to be impossible.  This has been attributed to the fact that the AnyStore exit I/O procedure (ARSZ390I) is a DLL, whereas BPXWDYN is not.

Any advice and/or option to get around this issue would be greatly appreciated.