RE: Printer job number

Thanks Vernon for your help. It did what I needed.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@attbi.com]
Sent: quinta-feira, 4 de Julho de 2002 18:07
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Printer job number


You don't need the user, as it's always the same user - QSPLJOB.

What you call a printer job is actually a writer job, and each one of
those has unique name. So you can use DSPJOB WRITERNAME OUTPUT(*PRINT)
OPTION(*DFNA) to get a spooled file with, in this case, the option 2
values from a DSPJOB. The reason for the OPTION is to minimize the size
of the spooled file. You can leave it off.

Then you CPYSPLF QPDSPJOB to a physical file, then read the 2nd record,
where the job number is in position 77. You can get to the 2nd record
with OVRDBF FILE(OUTF) POSITION(*RRN 2), followed by RCVF in a CL
program.

The [hysical file has to exist before running the command, and also
before compiling the CL. Should have RCDLEN(132) for this purpose.

PGM        PARM(&WRITER)

DCL        VAR(&WRITER) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10)
DCL        VAR(&JOBNUM) TYPE(*DEC) LEN(6 0)

DCLF       FILE(VERN/SPLF)

DSPJOB     JOB(&WRITER) OUTPUT(*PRINT) OPTION(*DFNA)
CPYSPLF    FILE(QPDSPJOB) TOFILE(VERN/SPLF) SPLNBR(*LAST)
DLTSPLF    FILE(QPDSPJOB) SPLNBR(*LAST)

OVRDBF     FILE(SPLF) POSITION(*RRN 2)
RCVF

CHGVAR     VAR(&JOBNUM) VALUE(%SST(&SPLF 77 6))

DLTOVR     FILE(SPLF)

ENDPGM

At 04:58 PM 7/4/02 +0100, you wrote:

>Is there an easy way to retrieve the job number of a printer job in
>subsystem QSPL, knowing the user and the printer name? Thanks for your
>help.
>
>A.Sousa

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