RE: A quick question on spool files

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Salter wrote:

>Is there anyway to catch it midstream 
>and change from an AFPDS spoolfile
>into an SCS?

You can assign a data queue to an OUTQ.  When a spooled file becomes ready
to print, an entry gets written to the data queue.  If you have a program
monitoring that data queue you can intercept the spooled file before it
prints (as long as the OUTQ is not assigned to a writer.)

>I am trying to override every last little 
>printfile that I can think of, yet
>I haven't been successful

Ordinarily, I wouldn't suggest overriding or changing *ALL APF print files
to *SCS.  Typically, there's a reason they are *AFP - logo, bar code,
graphics.  Can you afford to lose them?

Try as I might, I couldn't remember (or look up) the problem you were trying
to solve.  I'm sorry.  Could you explain again what you need this for?  Is
it a vendor's application that you need to capture the reports from?

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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