Re: Work with Spooled Files

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's really the combination of the Integer variables, Based variables 
and pointers, Defined variables, and the looping constructs that make it 
all work pretty easily.

I think the key is that it's mostly setup (the DCLs and such) then the 
API Call. But the reading of the data is stupid simple with a Do loop 
and changing the pointer offset. Not a single %SST to be had!!

First one I did reads all the tapes in a tape library, noting if they 
are write protected, etc. Very slick.


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On 9/29/2016 12:05 PM, Roger Harman wrote:
> Exactly my thoughts.  With the DO... looping commands, it should be a piece of cake.
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> Roger Harman
> COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
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> From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 8:32 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Work with Spooled Files
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> Since CL added pointer support, offsets, structured operations and stuff
> it's gotten a lot better.
> There was a time when I'd rather use QCMDEXE (or another such api) from
> within RPG than write CL.
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> Rob Berendt