Re: Data Queues

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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??