RE: Sorting spooled files

I set up a system once to solve a comparable situation. 

These spool files are going into an *OUTQ. You can use OVRPRTF to put them on 
hold, or put the entire out queue on HOLD(*YES), or just make it a dummy out 
queue that goes nowhere. 

On the CRTOUTQ and on the CHGOUTQ commands there is a DTAQ(...) parameter. This 
"associates" a data queue with that out queue. When a spool file is released to 
print on the out queue, an entry/message will be sent into the data queue with 
the corresponding information, including job, user, spool file number, etc. 

What I was able to find real quick in IBM's "infocenter" is that the data queue 
must be *FIFO or *LIFO, and that means you can't make it keyed, but then you 
can process the entries easily enough with RPG. You could even use the API's 
real easy to feed them into a keyed data queue where all the Splf1's print out 
before the Splf2's, or on separate printers, whatever you want. Or you could do 
something else with them...

You'll have to dig around for the format in the data queue, I couldn't find it 
in a reasonable time, but you'll find it. :) Or just analyze the data queue 
entries inside an RPG debug or something... 

--Alan




-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Richard ECUYER
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:15 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Sorting spooled files


perhaps with OVRPRTF and OUTPTY ?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernd Dworrak" <bdworrak@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 6:26 AM
Subject: Sorting spooled files

Hello!



I have the following problem: An application creates spooled file
'Splf1' and 'Splf2'.



Splf1 is a packing list and Splf2 is a delivery note. These files are
created in batch, so that in the outqueue there is the following
sequence



Splf1

Splf2

Splf1

Splf2

Splf1

Splf2

...

and so on.



Is there any API or tool that enables me to resort the outqueue so that
first all files that are named Splf1 are printed and after that all
files that are named Splf2?



Thanx in advance



Bernd Dworrak




7/12/2006


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