Re: Data Queues

Carel

I'm sure it's an oversight on your part but you do get the spool file number in the data queue entry in positions 49-52. Its a Bin(4) field. Its in the Printer Device Programming manual.

My normal solution to Bill's problem is, as others have suggested, to use an outqueue as a staging area prior to sending the spool file to an outqueue attached to a writer.

Regards
Evan Harris

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.

There is an alternative to use the List Spoolfiles-Retrieve Spoolfile Attributes-Move Spoolfile API's.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler.



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On 10-2-03 at 10:14 bill totz wrote:

>I am currently working on a project which requires the caturing of spool
>files and copying to a save queue for future archiving. I have setup a
>data queue however I am unclear as to how this all works. I need to trigger my
>pgm the second a spool hits the queue and copy over to the save queue-this
>is due to the high volume of on demand printing my company does. The
>problem is once the spool hits the queue it prints and is now gone. How do I
>trigger my pgm once the spool arrives in the queue??