Re: Page Group API

I deal with this type of thing all the time with customers who use my
SPLTOOL software to convert spooled files to PDF. Reports are all on one
spooled file... why? Because in the "old days" everything was printed and
manually separated.

Now, SPLTOOL does have the ability to split spooled files by page number to
new spooled files (using the PRTRNG command) or the conversion process can
also split things up by page number when converting to PDF, text, etc....

But, here is what I suggest.

Update the application to do a simple close, then open on the spooled file
where you want the spooled file breaks. This will separate them how you
want them instead of having to try and separate spooled files by
page/customer/etc.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 9:13 AM Ben Hoipkemier <ben.hoipkemier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I have several spool files that have multiple client reports in each spool
file. For example:
- Spool File 1: Page 1 is client A; Page 2 is client B; Page 3 is client C
- Spool File 2: Page 1 is client A; Page 2 is client C

My goal is to write a program that will collate these printouts by client,
so in the above example I would like to print the following:
- Client A - Spool File 1 Page 1
- Client A - Spool File 2 Page 1
- Client B - Spool File 1 Page 2
- Client C - Spool File 1 Page 3
- Client C - Spool File 2 Page 2

I know that I can use STRPAGGRP and ENDPAGGRP to create page groups by
client in my spool file. I am looking for an API that will allow me to
read the page groups of a given spool file. I saw that QUSRSPLA has a page
group attribute that will denote if there are page groups present

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.1?topic=ssw_ibm_i_71/apis/QUSRSPLA.htm#:~:text=CHAR(1)-,Page%20groups,-2877


Is there an API that will allow me to iterate through the page groups in a
spool file and determine the starting and ending page?
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