I work with U2 and non U2 MV's (MVBase, D3, MCD, most natives) and SP-EDIT is a pain. It's so old school it's a shame D3/MVBase still use it in its Jurrasic Pick incarnation. Don't get me started on all the combinations of options to handle any problems. One of the manuals even refers to it as Spooler Warfare.
I have a utility that converts any SP-EDIT hold file to a file-level item for easy editing. It uses the SP-EDIT spool=F option. Some systems create multiple records and others assemble them into one. These file-level items are RUNOFF records. Thus to re-print the hold file with any changes your system must have RUNOFF. If not, you can remove the embedded simple RUNOFF commands (lines that start with a <period>) and just convert them to form-feeds. I think _HOLD_ matches lines to the SETPTR settings and may not have char(12)'s. The filename that you *are* looking for is called PEQS and while you can type LIST<space>PEQS the data isn't really usable data. That's why they have LISTPEQS. I also have a utility that emulates the SP-JOBS of Microdata which I believe is the best spooler manager. It only replicates the SP-JOBS of hold-file management and not SP-STATUS of device management. That is a real different thing on native versus network versions of D3/MvBase. Hopefully this helps. Mark Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allen E. Elwood (CA)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 7:43 PM Subject: [U2] mvBase spooler > Does anybody know in a Raining data mvBase system, *is* there a file for the > spooled jobs, and if so, what the name might be? I really truly hate > SP-EDIT and have a spooler that I wrote for Unidata that I would like to > port over. > > > Allen E. Elwood > Senior Programmer Analyst > Direct (818) 361-5251 > Fax (818) 361-5251 > Cell (818) 359-8162 > Home (818) 361-7217 > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
