Re: Profile Swapping and Spoolfile...

I noticed something interesting today.

I wrote a simple program that uses API's QSYGETPH and QWTSEP to swap to
another users profile.

However, whenever a spool file is created from this job after "the swap"  it
ends up being associated with a QPRTJOB job instead of the interactive job
in which it was created.

This makes it difficult, within a program, to create a Spoolfile and then
access it for further processing.

For example. I have a program that creates a profile listing (DSPUSRPRF XXX
*PRINT) and then sends the listing it to someone. The program creates the
Spoolfile QPUSRPRF, which is then processed like this: SNDNETSPLF
FILE(QPUSRPRF) JOB(*) SPLNBR(*LAST)

Specifying ' * ' for JOB .....

Well since that the Spoolfile isn't associated with JOB(*) ... It is
associated with that other job named QPRTJOB which was created under the
"swapped to" user ID, the SNDNETSPLF command fails because it can't find the
file.

I can't think of an easy way to handle this.  Has anyone written any code to
handle this situation? It would probably be code written for a server
process that accepts incoming requests from another user and then swaps to
that user to run....

Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanx!

Kenneth

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Kenneth E. Graap
IBM Certified Specialist
AS/400e Professional System Administrator
NW Natural (Gas Services)
keg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone: 503-226-4211 x5537
FAX:    603-849-0591
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