The spool holds a record of commands and their responses. By default, spooling is disabled.

• spool <file> [append]: Starts the spool. If the file exists, it is deleted and the spool is restarted. If the append token is used, the spool does not delete the file, but rather appends to it. As a protection, you cannot create a spool with suffix .xml, .properties, etc. iWay suggests using file names that end in .txt, .log, .spool, etc.
• spool off: Pauses spooling. You might want to do this to avoid recording repetitive commands.
• spool on: Resumes spooling.
• spool close: Terminates and closes the spool.
• spool: Displays the state of the spool.

The spool applies only to the immediate command connection. The spool command cannot be used in remote mode.

Absolute spool file locations are accepted as entered. Relative spool file locations are considered to be off the log directory, which is normally configured for the server in the Log Settings console page. The default is <home>/config/<configuration>/log.