RE: Sharing a Print File

You are looking for OvrPrtF, but with a twist..... Open the file in a
"controlling" rpg program and call the other programs from the controlling
programs.

The file will be opened once (in the controlling program).... The
controlling program doesn't even need to output to the file. It just has
to be mentioned in the F-Specs. Each of the other programs will output to
the same file.

One other interesting twist.... you have to add some controls for the page
counter. If the first reporting program writes 10 pages, you will want
the second reporting program to print the header with "page 11".
Unfortunately, unless you pass a starting value, the page counter will
start at 1 again. This may or may not be a problem for you.


I had a very long program that printed a report in 11 different segments.
Each segment was unique. Occasionally, the user wanted the whole report,
but often only needed a couple segments. The original program was broken
into 11 different reporting programs. A controlling program opens the
spool file and calls the specific segments based on passed parms. It works
cleanly and makes maintenance much easier. Each segment is easily
maintained and modified without causing issues to the rest.

Hope this helps.

Paul Thieme



message: 1
date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:01:29 -0700
from: "Kesterson, Randy" <RPKesterson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Sharing a Print File

Is there a way to run two RPG report programs, both outputting to the
same Print File name and have them share the open of that print file so
that both reports end up in one spool file?



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