A Super-Easy Way to Copy a Spooled File from One Machine to Another

The following question was posted to the online forums at IT Jungle: We are getting a new iSeries and upgrading to V5R3. At present, we are on V5R1. We plan to run parallel for testing. Is there a way to move the output queues and/or their contents to the new machine?

—pmslic

Here is the answer that RussK provided.

I just found a note I’d made on iSeries Navigator: “In a multi-system environment, you can even drag from an outq on system ‘A’ to an outq on system ‘B’, and the spooled files will move from one system to another.” I just tried it and it worked. I connected to the new system and the old system and dragged a spool file from old system outq to an outq on the new system.

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