Re: Help with QUSLSPL

Thanks!

Bob Crothers wrote:

Walt,

You are aware that you will not be able to work directly on the data
in a spool file I hope.

You can copy the data to a User Space or PF, and work on it there.
But it will not change the "spool file".

It is a minor point, but could be a very significant point.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: c400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:c400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walt Fles
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 3:39 PM
To: C programming iSeries / AS400
Subject: Re: [C400-L] Help with QUSLSPL

Scott,
I found an API example on the IBM web site that I am going to try

and

work through.

Basically Id like to take a job pid, find the actual job

information,

and find the associated spooled file(s).
Once I have that information Id like to work with the data in the spooled files.

Scott Klement wrote:

Hi Walt,

are there any code examples of how to use QUSLSPL, to obtain a

file

handle to the spooled output,
so I can open it, read the data, and then close the spooled file?

QUSLSPL does not return a file handle to anything, it just

gives a list of

spooled files.

It's analogous to opendir/readdir/closedir, except that

instead of reading

files in a filesystem, it reads spooled files. (Which are

not stored in

the standard filesystem like they would be in Unix-like

operating systems)

I know how to use the open/close APIs but it's just a

matter of finding

the output files.

Yes, that's what QUSLSPL does... it lists the spooled files that

are

available.

Then you use the "Open Spooled File (QSPOPNSP)", "Get Spooled
File Data (QSPGETSP)" and "Close Spooled File (QSPCLOSP)"

APIs to read

the contents of the spooled file itself.

I'm unclear of which API you want an example of? In the

first paragraph,

you wanted an example of using QUSLSPL to get a file handle,

which it does

not do. In the second example, you state that you already

know how to

open/read/close a spooled file, which means you already know

how to get a

handle to it?

So what are you looking for?

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