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I need to find out the status (rdy, snd, hld, etc.) of a spool file from an as400 CL program

I need to find out when the status of the spool file created by this job has been printed and is in the SAV status. I'm not able continue in my program until the file has been printed. Any ideas? I'm using a DLYJOB now but I would like to continue right away once its at the SAV status.

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billymcqueary:

The Retrieve Spooled File Attributes (QUSRSPLA) API can return the status of a spooled file. When the Status is '*SAVED', you know you can continue.

Let me know if a sample of CL for this is needed.

Tom

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An example would be great if not too much to ask. Thanks.

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Barry's example grabs a number of returned attributes for a spooled file and sends the values out as messages. The &STATUS variable is the one of most interest here; others that are extracted from the return variable can be eliminated. (But they're useful examples for cloned functions.)

The actual resulting function is pretty small.

Tom

Barry Harper

The pruned version looks more like:
PGM ( +
&SPLFNAME /* SPOOLED FILE NAME INPUT */ +
)
/* PARMS FOR API */
DCL &RCVR *CHAR 1500 /*RECEIVER VARIABLE */
DCL &RCVRLEN *CHAR 4 /*LENGTH OF RECEIVER VARIABLE */
DCL &RCVRFMT *CHAR 10 /*FORMAT NAME */
DCL &QUALJOB *CHAR 26 /*QUALIFIED JOB NAME */
DCL &INTJOB *CHAR 16 /*INTERNAL JOB IDENTIFIER */
DCL &INTSPLF *CHAR 16 /*INTERNAL SPOOLED FILE IDENTIFIER */
DCL &SPLFNAME *CHAR 10 /*SPOOLED FILE NAME */
DCL &SPLNBR *CHAR 4 /*SPOOLED FILE NUMBER */
/* VALUES RETURNED BY API */
DCL &STATUS *CHAR 10 /* STATUS */
CHGVAR &RCVRLEN X'05DC'
CHGVAR &RCVRFMT 'SPLA0100'
CHGVAR &QUALJOB '* '
CHGVAR &INTJOB ' '
CHGVAR &INTSPLF ' '
CHGVAR &SPLNBR X'FFFFFFFF'
CALL QUSRSPLA (&RCVR &RCVRLEN &RCVRFMT +
&QUALJOB &INTJOB &INTSPLF +
&SPLFNAME &SPLNBR)
CHGVAR &STATUS %SST(&RCVR 101 10)
SNDPGMMSG ('STATUS >' || &STATUS || '<')
ENDPGM

The possible values for &STATUS are:
*CLOSED The program completely processed the file, but SCHEDULE(*JOBEND) was specified, and the job that produced the file has not yet finished.
*DEFERRED The spooled file has been deferred from printing.
*SENDING The spooled file is being sent or has been sent to a remote system.
*HELD The file is held.
*MESSAGE The file has a message requiring a reply or an action.
*OPEN The file was not completely processed and is not ready for a writer.
*PENDING The file is pending to be printed.
*PRINTER The complete file was sent to the printer, but a print complete status was not sent back.
*READY The file is available to be written.
*SAVED The file was written and is saved. This file remains saved until it is released.
*WRITING The writer is writing the file on a diskette or a printer device.

To find more info on QUSRSPLA, search for QUSRSPLA (or use the API finder) at the IBM infocenter:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp

Barry