Greetings,
This is related to another post I put on regarding spool files being sent to RSCS from a VSE machine being placed in "user-hold". I would like to know if there is a way to find out the tag information for a spool file in another user's (in my case, user RSCS) reader. I thought I could do a CP TRANSFER RSCS RDR spoolid' to my userid, do a 'TAG QUERY FILE' on the file to determine the linkid , send a SMSG to RSCS to purge the now missing file, change it to NOHOLD and transfer it back to RSCS's reader but I see the tag info gets changed and RSCS rejects it. I can work around this by retagging the file before transferring it back to RSCS. I also tried doing a 'CP CHANGE RSCS RDR spoolid NOHOLD" but unfortunately RSCS does know that the file has been changed to NOHOLD and since I don't know what linkid I can't issue the equivalent SMSG RSCS CHANGE command to do it. Of course, it would be a lot simpler to just be able to query the tag info of a spool file in RSCS's reader that is in "hold" status. I have VM:Spool and see that maybe it can be done but I think it also does a CP TRANSFER. Another solution would be to do a SMSG RSCS Q SYS Q and process the result. We use VM:Operator and I would have to get our automation group involved in trapping and processing the output. That's a possibility. Maybe I can get to the tag info through some displays of CP control blocks? Any other way? Thanks, Mike
