RE: [MI400] Spooled file problem

["Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard,

Every spool file on your system is uniquely described by five
attributes:

- File Name  (QPRINT etc.)
- Job  (further divided below)
        - Job name
        - User
        - Job Number
- Spool Number

Your utility should grab enough of the information above to uniquely
identify the spool file to be converted and then process it.  It is
possible that you have a utility which was written prior to V5, when the
spool number was enlarged.  Is this a likely scenario?

Can you give information about your release level and possibly some
detailed error messages from your job log?

(Buck is right; your question more appropriately belongs on Midrange-L,
not the MI list.)

I don't believe there is any way to change the identifying
characteristics of a spool file.  There is a good chance that you need
to update your utility or modify its parameter inputs.

How does your utility interface to the system?

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

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> Subject: [MI400] Spooled file problem
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> To all the OS/400 Experts:
>
> We have a real urgent operational problem here.  When you do a WRKSPLF
> command and hit F11 twice, the first two columns are *File* and *File
> Nbr*.  The File Nbr field is evidently four bytes long; it seems to
> increment by spool file name (i.e., QPrint number 1, QPrint number 2,
> QSysPrt number 1, etc.).
>
> The _pressing_ problem we have here, is that we have a lot of save
> spooled files with the same name (for example, Invoices), which is
> causing this four-digit number to "top out" at 9999.  We have a
utility
> which takes the spooled file and turns it to ASCII for pretty print,
but
> this utility BOMBS when the high number is reached.
>
> Question:  Can we reset this number (for a given spool file) without
> having to IPL or something?  IPL at this time is not an option.
>
> Please help if you can!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Richard C. Hart
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