Re: Data Queues

["Peter Dow" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Carel,

>From IBM Knowledge Base 22013019
(http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.NSF/0cf528a492c9b4a88625680b0002037f/0
bbbeed4841c9ce3862569e7007b4b8c?OpenDocument):

/* EXTRACT SPOOLED FILE DETAILS FOR DATA QUEUE ENTRY */
CHGVAR VAR(&JOBNAME) VALUE(%SST(&SPLFDTA 13 10))
CHGVAR VAR(&JOBUSER) VALUE(%SST(&SPLFDTA 23 10))
CHGVAR VAR(&JOBNBR) VALUE(%SST(&SPLFDTA 33 6))
CHGVAR VAR(&SPLFNAME) VALUE(%SST(&SPLFDTA 39 10))
CHGVAR VAR(&SPLFNBR) VALUE(%BIN(&SPLFDTA 49 4))

Note that the spool file number is in positions 49-52, in binary format.

Regards,
Peter Dow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Carel Teijgeler" <coteijgeler@chello.nl>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: Data Queues


> Bill,
>
> It depends, after putting the spoolfile in SAVE(*YES).
>
> If a job generates many spool files with the same name it will become
difficult, as the data queue option does not supply the spoolfile number.
You've only got job name, job user, job number and spool file name in the
data from the data queue. So you can only process a spoolfile with a
spoolfile number, or the special values *ONLY (this will fail) or *LAST.