Re: defining multiple printer files in ILE COBOL...

"Richard Casey" <casey_r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Michael,

All you need to do is define the additional files like you showed in your
email.

Each printer file that you open will create a unique spooled file. In your
example you are referring to the same printer file (QPRINT), so your
reports
will have different file numbers.

Thanks, that makes me feel better. Following that line of thought, let's say
my program creates 3 reports: detail, summary and error. If I want to create
the 3 reports all to QPRINT as separate files and have their "user-specified
data" read Detail, Summary and Error respectively, how do I do that with the
definitions as

SELECT PRINT-FILE1 ASSIGN TO PRINTER-QPRINT.
SELECT PRINT-FILE2 ASSIGN TO PRINTER-QPRINT.
SELECT PRINT-FILE3 ASSIGN TO PRINTER-QPRINT.

I'm thinking I need to use OVRPRTF in the CL but I don't see how to make the
correlation.