mfsplcnv Spool Conversion Utility

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 MVSSPOOLDIR environment variable, which must be set before you run mfsplcnv. Running the utility 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.

Syntax

mfsplcnv -{1|2}

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, the SPLJOB.dat must be downloaded to a local disk to be converted and then upload the converted file back to the database.

In addition, before downloading the SPLJOB.dat file, ensure that there are no duplicate alternate keys in the file.