RE: Easy way to have all of a given user's spool files automatically held?

Two problems I see....
1) You'd have to monitor every outq
2) Sometimes the file is gone by the time you can react.
Remember, it has to be in a RDY state to have a message placed on the data queue and I've seen them disappear into the printers buffer before I could do anything.


Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power




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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 11:07 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Easy way to have all of a given user's spool files automatically held?

There is a way to use a DTAQ, perhaps - here is the documentation on
this feature -

You can associate a data queue with an output queue so that when a
spooled file on the output queue goes to a ready (RDY) status, an
entry is sent to the data queue.

To view the layout or content of the data queue entry that is sent,
seeRecord type 01 data queue entry format
<http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/index.jsp?topic=/rzalu/rzalurectype01.htm>.

To associate the data queue and output queue, use theCreate Data Queue
(CRTDTAQ)command to create the data queue. Specify the maximum message
length (MAXLEN) parameter value as at least 128. The sequence (SEQ)
parameter value is*FIFOor*LIFO. Then, on the

A program could be waiting on the DTAQ and have a table to control what
you do.

Maybe?

Vern

On 2/17/2020 4:14 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

I've probably asked this before, and probably more than once, but . . .

Is there an easy way to set a given user so that *all* of that user's
spool files are held on creation?

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JHHL