Re: automagic page heading routine

I did not explicitly recall the SPLFNAME being there. That is why I was so non-committal on my opening remarks, per "if... not available". But I had forgotten entirely that the SPOOL_FILE and SPOOL_LIB in the INFDS Open Feedback data were identifying the implementation object for spool data storage, i.e. identify the spool-database-file[.member] which stores the spooled data for the opened printer file. Thus the spool_lib value presumably should always be a QSPL#### library.

FWiW, I looked up a more generic documentation for the "Open feedback area for printer" file ODP:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzalu/rzalureffeedb.htm
"... Parent topic: Printer file feedback areas"

Generally the control program sets the desired SPLFNAME [e.g. using OVRPRTF] and then does what needs to be done [e.g. selection by name] based on that spool file name, after the control is returned. However in the described scenario, the report program or more specifically the "automagic page heading routine" is what needs to know an attribute that generally would have been set by a control program. The control program could either pass the data to the reporting program [e.g. in a parameter, in addition to still setting that value in the override] or extract the "report-id" value [as obtained from the SPLFNAME data] after the spool file has been created [per opening the printer file]. For a scenario whereby the called routine must infer\extract from the spool file name versus a passed parameter, and for lack of that data being found [easily] in any Data Management Feedback Area, using the QSPRILSP API is much more succinct and simple than would be using either the Open List of Spooled Files (QGYOLSPL) API or the List Spooled Files (QUSLSPL) API; and probably more so than any other methods [esp. something silly like copying\reading output from a "wrkjob output(*print) option(*splf)"] that could be employed to find the name.

Regards, Chuck

On 24 Apr 2012 13:18, Stone, Joel wrote:

In COBOL, I tried using the SPECIAL-NAMES. OPEN-FEEDBACK IS OF-AREA.

Also tried I-O-FEEDBACK IS IO-FEEDBACK.

But I can't see the override spool file name. I would like to
retrieve "FILE1", but in the OFA I can only see the original
spool <ed: printer> file name HIP544PRT.

I am guessing that RPG and COBOL's feedback area contains similar
stuff, which doesn't include the real file name "FILE1" (the one I
see with WRKSPLF).

Any ideas? Is API the only solution? Or would that only return the
original spool file name and not the over-ridden name?

OVRPRTF FILE(HIP544PRT) SPLFNAME(FILE1)
call hip544b (&TITLE1 &TITLE2 &ShowCust)

<<SNIP>> Variable . . . . . . . . . : 01 OFA-AREA
Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : CHARACTER
Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 300
*...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5
---> 'SPHIP544PRT TPGMLIB Q04079N010QSPL ¬¬¬¬¬¬Q7'
'77375375¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬â¬µ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬s¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬'
<<SNIP>>

CRPence on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:39 PM wrote:

If the [device specific] "Open Feedback" is not available, or the
spool file name is not available via an INFDS, then any [HLL] as
report generator could, after the open of the printer file, use the
following API to get the Spool File Name [and spool file number].

_i Retrieve Identity of Last Spooled File Created (QSPRILSP) API i_
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/apis/QSPRILSP.htm
"... The Retrieve Identity of Last Spooled File Created (QSPRILSP)
API returns the complete spooled file identity of the last spooled
file created for the current job or thread. ..."

If the program PAR01B is RPG, and that program wants to know what
the SPLFNAME() used for the printer file opened, then the
following would appear to describe where the data is [albeit I can
make no sense of the "spool library" and AFaIK the 2-byte spool
file number is deprecated with the aforementioned API as
recommendation]:

<<SNIP>>