Re: INFDS for Printer file

I think it could be the member name where the actual spoolfile data is
stored. Years ago I had to debug a printing problem and SupportLine had me
dig out the data which was in a file in the QSPL library. If I recall
correctly, the member name always started with a Q. But this wouldn't fit
with getting the user data sometimes.

"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 11/03/2015 05:08:15
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INFDS for Printer file

According to the IBM docs the following fields are defined in the INFDS.

...
D FILE_NAME 83 92
* File name
D LIBRARY 93 102
* Library name
D SPOOL_FILE 103 112
* Spool file name
D SPOOL_LIB 113 122
* Spool file lib
D SPOOL_NUM 123 124I 0
* Spool file num
...
I needed the spool file name and so used the one at position 103.
But that just (most often *) contains some weird combination of
letters and numbers starting with Q and has no apparent connection
with any of the other information recorded for the spool file.

This is not critical as I discovered that for my purposes the file
name in position 83 works just fine, but I just wondered if anyone
has any idea what the entry is about.

** I did notice that sometimes it appears to contain the User Data -
and not the Q… stuff but I could never figure out under what
circumstances it did that as one otherwise identical runs it
produced different results.