Re: AS/SET question - another method

["Bernard Burchell" <burchelb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another way to change the OUTQ for a spooled file is change it while it’s
still open, e.g. by putting in your AS/SET program:

C     CHGSPLFA  INV210O  SPLNBR(*LAST)  OUTQ(PRT02)

This overcomes the problem of not being able to open and close the printer
file for an OVRPRTF command to work.  Of course if you need a variable outq,
you’ll still have the put the above statement into a QCMDEXC call.

Bernard Burchell.

> <<snip>>
>As usual, "it depends".  If program "A" performs the OVRPRTF for print
program
>"B" which is called from "A", it will work fine.  It all has to do with the
>scope of overrides on the AS/400.  When you perform an override, it is
valid
>for both the current call stack level and all subsequent levels (valid for
"A"
>which calls "B" and maintains the override, and if "B" calls "C" the
override
>will be valid for "C" as well).  The problem is, unless you perform a
manual
>"OPEN" with a user-controlled file, RPG program "A" (under ye olde RPG
logic
>cycle) has already opened all of the files before the OVR gets performed.
I
>know of know way to make a print file "UC" under AS/Set, but would love to
>hear if it could be done.
>
>Your specific example could be due to the OUTQ placed under "printer
>characteristics" (option 7, I _think_) on the report layout.  Even so, it
will
>still only work for one OUTQ, rather than the several suggested by the
>original question.
>
>Clear as mud ;-)?
>
>Dean Asmussen
>Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
>Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
>E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
>


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