Re: Distribution Lists

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Howard,

you asked

>Has anyone used distribution lists? 
>

Yes, I have. What are you trying to do ? All you need to do is create a
uniquely named list and add in directory entries under it. It is worth
spending some time to have a naming strategy that fits your directory
naming strategy so that lists are able to be located easily and you don't
end up with lots of duplicates.

>How do I tie spool file output to a distribution list or is this a
>different kind of distribution list?
>

A bit more information on what you are trying to do would help me answer
your question, but as a guess, I figure you want to distribute report(s) to
multiple users maintained in a distribution list, or perhaps multiple
outqueues. Rather than doing a SNDNETSPLF or putting a 1 in the WRKOUTQ
display you can use the distribution list to do the lot at once.

If you put a 1 next to a spool file entry in a WRKOUTQ display be aware
that the TOUSER parameter (I hope thats it, I'm working from memory) needs
TWO brackets around it because its a list element. So you would put
TOUSER((USER SYSTEM)) on the parameter line.

To use distribution lists to route output to your printers/outqueues, one
approach you can take is to create a User profile for each of your
printers, with a default outqueue of the outqueue the printer normally
opeates in. Enrol the "printer users" in your directory and then you can
then build a distribution list to send the spool file to multiple printers.

This would work well if you had some kind of central despatching outqueue
with a data queue attached to it that processed the spool files and did a
SNDNETSPLF for each of the files based on some kind of selection mechanism
that your dtermeined.

Hope this helps.

Evan.
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