RE: segmentation of spooled output on the iSeries...

Is the program that segments the output the spooler or the COBOL
application?  Yes your RPG can close the spool file and re-open it, thus
creating multiple spool files.  You can also start printing a spool file
while it is still open, being generated by the application by changing
the SCHEDULE from the default of *FILEEND to *IMMED.  This can be a
change by an operator or in a CL OVRPRTF statement or in the actual
print file with a CHGPRTF.  We used to do this for our monthly statement
run when the program took 6 hours to generate and 8 hours to print.


Christopher Bipes
Information Services Director
CrossCheck, Inc.

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Subject: segmentation of spooled output on the iSeries...

List,

I have another mainframe-to-iSeries question for you.

On our VSE system, every night, we print tens of thousands of 1-page
letters on our Xerox laser. The program on the VSE system creates 1
large "report" 
to the spooler containing all of the letters in a certain order. The
program "segments" the output on a logical boundary, usually a
combination of number of letters and form code/type. The reason this is
done is so that printing of letters can be started (i.e. sent to the
Xerox) BEFORE the program has completed processing of all the letters
for the run. This saves time, allowing the operator to get a "jump" on
the printing by not having to wait until the program has finished to be
able to release the print.

My questions:

Is there a way to duplicate this process on the iSeries?

Can a COBOL program interface with the system so that it can "segment"
the print file output?

Would it be as simple as closing and re-opening the print output file?
What is the best way to handle this?

As always, TIA!

--
Regards,

Michael Rosinger
Systems Programmer / DBA
Computer Credit, Inc.
640 West Fourth Street
Winston-Salem, NC  27101
336-761-1524
m rosinger at cciws dot com 


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