It's not exactly clear to me what information you want to transfer to
the PC (or why); but I think you might be able to make use of the
Spool File APIs, in particular QGYOLSPL, QUSLSPL, and QSPROUTQ are
likely to be good starting points.
This is a discussion on Transfer Print queue(F10) list to text file? - IBM AS400 ; I would like to get print queue information (e.g. from F10, 2) into a P.C. spreadsheet - thus I say, into a text file. Between constant page- up/downs, and F11s after F11s after F11s because it takes four horizontal screens ...
I would like to get print queue information (e.g. from F10, 2) into a
P.C. spreadsheet - thus I say, into a text file. Between constant page-
up/downs, and F11s after F11s after F11s because it takes four
horizontal screens to show each queue entry(its default orientation
giving rise to tons of horizontal whitespace), and inability to sort,
the interface as is, is just pathetic. It begs for user errors, and
always, _always_ wastes time. Real time. If I could consolidate F10
information to a single file, I'd slap it into Excel, and in about .2
seconds all would be swell.
By sheer accident I learned of iSeries Navigator which may be
worthwhile, at least better than the F10 arrangement as installed
here. I snuck around looking into it, but it only seems to scope to
jobs I submitted, and the jobs that are most difficult to keep sorted
out are weekly and monthly production jobs (with a production user
name "PRL"). If I asked to have simple READ-ONLY privileges to PRL,
simply on the output queue DISPLAYS (not any actual data!!), the
uptight lead administrator here would probably send memos to upper
management saying I am upsetting her state of the art cart. That's the
IQ level I'm up against in this sanitarium. (Just to further drive
home the insanity point, I already _have_ those priveleges to a degree
when navigating F10 etc.)
Maybe ways to tailor these things are built in. Maybe they're options.
Maybe there are universally acclaimed addins. I don't know. I'm a P.C.
guy now, though. So I have zero administrative privileges, and in fact
am regarded as a troublemaker for asking these questions "when
everyone ELSE is just fine with it." In God's fun sense of humor I
currently reside in a shop where I'm treated as a level 1 insect by
the Mainframe(midrange) gatekeepers. Better yet, those up there with
an IQ above 90 have as much throughput improvement and efficiency
initiative as a sheet of linoleum.
So consider the question from a quasi renegade point of view. My
solution will not involve program requests for upgrades or requests
for add-ins because I'll be laughed out of my financial department
career here. The answer might turn out to be that I can pull $100 out
of my own pocket for a keystroke-fueled screenscraper, that I install
in Windows, that will (in my case) grab 4 screens at once into the
windows clipboard. Do you follow?
Sorry that I have fallen to being a babbling pathetic whining loser.
20 years ago I was writing assembler and C when the people in control
of my data were in diapers, and now I sound like a whimpering baby.
But I have no one to scream to here for therapy. If you read this far,
sorry to have put you through that. But then again, maybe some of you
have been here, or still are - and know that someone it helps just to
scream!
It's not exactly clear to me what information you want to transfer to
the PC (or why); but I think you might be able to make use of the
Spool File APIs, in particular QGYOLSPL, QUSLSPL, and QSPROUTQ are
likely to be good starting points.
il 29/08/2007 23.26, Scrive zofficedepot@hotmail.com 40349528:
[...]
Sorry but I didn't fully understand what you tried to mean.
What I can say is that op.nav let you select the output queue as a
filter for printed outputs, and fully honors the permissions of the user
that logged on.
--
Dr.Ugo Gagliardelli,Modena,ItalyCertifiedUindoscrasherAñe joAlcoolInside
Spaccamaroni andate a cagare/Spammers not welcome/Spammers vão à merda
Spamers iros a la mierda/Spamers allez vous faire foutre/Spammers loop
schijten/Spammers macht Euch vom Acker/Spamerzy wypierdalac'
If programming to the APIs [mentioned in another posting] is not an
option, as I infer may be the case, then perhaps the command request to
WRKSPLF SELECT() OUTPUT(*PRINT), and then view that spool file from
OpsNav? So for a particular job name QSQSRVR, list all of the spool
files [where the user data remained the default of job name] using the
request: WRKSPLF SELECT(*ALL *ALL *ALL QSQSRVR)
Regards, Chuck
--
All comments provided "as is" with no warranties of any kind
whatsoever and may not represent positions, strategies, nor views of my
employer
zofficedepot@hotmail.com wrote:
> I would like to get print queue information (e.g. from F10, 2) into a
> P.C. spreadsheet - thus I say, into a text file. Between constant page-
> up/downs, and F11s after F11s after F11s because it takes four
> horizontal screens to show each queue entry(its default orientation
> giving rise to tons of horizontal whitespace), and inability to sort,
> the interface as is, is just pathetic. It begs for user errors, and
> always, _always_ wastes time. Real time. If I could consolidate F10
> information to a single file, I'd slap it into Excel, and in about .2
> seconds all would be swell.
>
> By sheer accident I learned of iSeries Navigator which may be
> worthwhile, at least better than the F10 arrangement as installed
> here. <>
>
> So consider the question from a quasi renegade point of view. My
> solution will not involve program requests for upgrades or requests
> for add-ins because I'll be laughed out of my financial department
> career here. The answer might turn out to be that I can pull $100 out
> of my own pocket for a keystroke-fueled screenscraper, that I install
> in Windows, that will (in my case) grab 4 screens at once into the
> windows clipboard. Do you follow?
>
> <>