RE: Getting Spool File Information

Mike,

Not sure what you mean by "not what I wanted". I've dealt with a lot of
issues regarding spooled files and it seems a lot of folks want to
"pinpoint" a specific spooled file without giving any information. That of
course is impossible. It's like trying to call your friend you know lives
in Texas, but you don't know his phone number. You say "but I know he's
there!" :) So, you get the phone book and look up his number.

Each spooled file has unique identifier(s) that must be used most of the
time to identify it for performing any operations on it.

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools, Inc.
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:22 AM
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Subject: Re: Getting Spool File Information


I never researched that program. While not exactly what I wanted, it'll
work.

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Mike Wills
Midrange Programmer/Analyst
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On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Bradley V. Stone
<bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Mike,

Not without using a lot of APIs. Don't you have SPLTOOL

installed on this

site? There is a command called SPLATT (Spooled File Attributes) in
SPLTOOL
that will allow you to build a PF filled with spooled file information.
You
just give it the information you know (you can use wildcards

and *ALL for

most) and it then creates a PF, you read through it, and bingo, you have
all
the information you need for each specific spooled file.

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools, Inc.
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 9:39 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Getting Spool File Information


Is there a way to get the unique identifier for a spool file with only
knowing the spool file name and assuming there is only one copy
in the OUTQ?
(The Job Name, Job User, Job Number and File Number.) We run a
report on one
day then we want to run another program to split out this

vendor created

report into multiple reports a couple days later. This is a payroll

report

so it has to be sent out on payday. I haven't seem much with

the search

terms I used.

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Mike Wills
Midrange Programmer/Analyst
http://mikewills.info
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikewills
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