Intermate AS/400, i5, iSeries manual User Output Queue, AFC315D, KSE HP5SI Qusrsys PDC PRT01

User Output Queue

This feature offers the possibility to move any spooled file to a user dependent output queue. It can be reached from the InterForm400 Main Menu by first selecting 5. Work with Auto Forms Control and then 7. User output queue.

	Work with user output queues		AFC315D
Position to		__________	User profile
Type options, press Enter.
2=Change 3=Copy 4=Delete
Opt	User profile	Output queue	Library
_	KSE	HP5SI	QUSRSYS
_	PDC	PRT01	QUSRSYS
_	SR	IMA7000	QUSRSYS

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F3=Exit F5=Refresh F6=Create F12=Cancel

Here you state a preferred output queue for each user profile. You distribute spooled files depending on the spooled file owner by use of a 5 = Move Spooled File line in AFC. Refer to page 145 for details.

Example: Distribute Spooled Files depending on Spooled File Owner

The table of User Output Queues above can e.g. be used for a task like this:

Several users use an application, that always prints to one output queue. However the users want the merged spooled files to be printed on the nearest printer.

To do that the users with their preferred printer should be added to the table above. Next you need to activate this in Auto Forms Control. This could be done like below:

1.Insert a 1=Merge command e.g. conditioned on the formtype of the original spooled file which e.g. could be DEMO. The merged spooled file is to be created on the same AFC monitored output queue. The formtype of the new, merged spooled file could be DISTRIBUTE.

2.Insert a 5=Move command in AFC depending on the resulting formtype (DISTRIBUTE) and move the spooled file to output queue *USER. If the owner does not exist in the list the Move is ignored, a 9=Exit is performed (indicating an error) and the spooled file remains in the output queue

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Instead of merging before you move the spooled file you could also decide to move the

*SCS spooled file to an AFC monitored queue (depending on the user profile, that owns the spooled file) and do the merge there.

244User’s Manual for InterForm400®