Re: Overlay Override

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx>]

BTW,

I've got a steak dinner at the Orange County Mining Company during COMMON 
in Anaheim to the first person that can show me how to do this in AIX/linux 
or Windows

:)

Don in DC



At 08:39 PM 1/28/2007 -0500, you wrote:


> well, it depends...
>
> what kind of data is the spool file?
>
> If you can do a cpysplf of the data into a physical file...you can maybe
> redeam yourself..
>
> CRTPF lib/name  recl(n+1 - where n is the record length of the spool file.
> cpysplf  name/job/num splfnam numbr TO(lib/name) splctl(*fcfc)
>
> Then do an OVRPRTF with your overlay and use splctl(*fcfc)
> cpyf from the lib/name above to that printer file and see if you got
> lucky...  Haven't done this in a while, but last I checked it should work.
>
> Don in DC
>
>
> At 08:30 PM 1/28/2007 -0500, you wrote:
> >I believe that once that spool file is generated,  it can't be
> >changed. The overlay is brought in at creation time.
> >
> >On 1/26/07, jeffw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <jeffw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi everybody.
> > > Does anyone know if you can change a spool file after the spool file has
> > > been generated with an overlay? We have a need to change a spool file 
> after
> > > it has been generated with an overlay to a different overlay ,if the end
> > > user moves the printout to a different output queue, but we can not 
> get it
> > > to work correctly. We have tried CHGSPLFA but we keeps bombing. Is this
> > > possible? Thanks in advance
> > >
> > > Jeff Williams
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