RE: How to Release all spool jobs

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Mike Berman
>
> HI I have an outq that for the time being, I have a problem,
> there are thousands of spool files that have to be moved into
> this outq. Problem #1. But once they are there, well they've been
> HELD in the job, so at least if there was some command or via an
> API to unhold an entire outq?
>
> Mike

Well, depending on how often this occurs, you may want to just avoid a
programming solution.  If this were a one-timer or something relatively
infrequent, I'd get to the outq screen, fire up my macro recorder in Client
Access, type in '6' in all rows on one screen, press page down, stop
recording, go edit the macro (a text file) and duplicate the '6's & page
down about 500 times, save it, play the macro, and go to lunch.

You could do the same for moving the spool files to another outq.  errr, no,
well, with a little twist, since you have to use option 2 (CHGSPLFA) and
specify the outq.  You could still use a macro to do that part, but then
after the macro was done, you'd have to type "OUTQ(library/outqname)" on the
command line *before* you press Enter.

Otherwise, I think your programming solution is going to have to be one that
uses the API that lists all spool files in a given outq, then process those
entries one at a time.  CHGSPLFA to change the outq, then RLSSPLF to
"unhold".

hth, db