Re: Spool files - programs or utilities to change their location/file type?

Hi Adam

The quick answer is yes.

You can attach a data queue to an output queue and it will receive an entry whenever the spool file gets a RDY status. You would then have a program monitoring the data queue and receiving those entries which you could then use to email the spool file or copy it to the IFS.

You can set up the emailing of spool files quite simply and use the SNDDST command to email them. This uses MSF and is reliant on QSNADS being available. I have a document describing how to configure SMTP and also some CL and CMD source for an EMAILSPLF command at the following links:

http://www.astradyne-uk.com/tips14.htm
http://www.astradyne-uk.com/code/index.php?id=b82ddbfec3

It's not very fancy, but it does the job. Alternatively, you could download and install the freeware MMAIL tool from http://www.easy400.net/easy400p/maindown.html. This is a a great tool for emailing that uses an API (the name of which I always have to look up) and will also convert your spool files to PDF format.

Best regards

Jonathan




Adam L wrote:

Hello,

I have several reports that get dumped to outqs on the system. Some
are generated by third party programs and some are generated by wrkqry
queries.

Currently those reports are printed out and distributed.

Is there a way to get them to the IFS or something so that people can
access them when needed and we don't need to print them out and
distribute? If the email server was enabled on the iSeries, would it
be easy to automate the reports being emailed out?

The users don't have access to Operations Navigator, so pulling them
off that way is a route I am looking to avoid.

Any ideas or leads are appreciated.

Adam