It sounds like you might be trying to look at the ‘control-code’ values, etc. (To do this you must have enough authority to get into the files and members in QSPL. I usually have our Security Officer do this for me.) You can get a dump of the whole spoolfile:

Display the spoolfile (via WRKJOB, WRKSBMJOB, WRKUSRJOB, WRKSPLF, etc.), do a system-request 3 (DSPJOB).

Select option 12 – Display Locks….

Page through the locked objects for your job. You’ll see one for a file in QSPL.

Select option ’5=Display job member locks’. This will show you the file and member name in the QSPL library.

Do a CPYF from this file and member to *PRINT with OUTFMT(*HEX). This will show you everything you want to know about the spoolfile and more.

What precisely are you trying to look for/do with the hex values?

Are you trying to find the printer control characters or so something else?

Thanks for your reply…

Im trying to print a big characters using RLU in an emulated epson printer. Is there some way to print it.

Hope this helps. This is really old code that I used to change fonts on IBM 3812 printers. I had to output hex codes to the printer. This code has since been replaced with Font overrides in my DDS.

* REF MANUAL: USING The IBM 3812 pageprinter with the IBM S36/S38
* PAGE 4-62, APPENDIX A, Appendix B
d hexzro s 1
d fnt1 s 1 dim(9)
d fnt2 s 1 dim(9)
c exsr $font
c movea fnt1 ldfnt1
c movea fnt2 ldfnt2
c $font begsr
c bitoff ’01234567′ hexzro
c move hexzro fnt1
c move hexzro fnt2
* SONORAN SERIF 24-PT Roman Bold Font 5707
c biton ’2467′ fnt1(1)
c biton ’0137′ fnt1(2)
c biton ’567′ fnt1(3)
c biton ’57′ fnt1(4)
c biton ’356′ fnt1(5)
c biton ’1467′ fnt1(6)
c biton ’02′ fnt1(8)
c endsr

Thanks for all your reply. I’m just trying to change the font size(BIGGER) of a field in RLU when printing to an EPSON printer that is emulated. I need to kno how to use the hex values is it in the printer file or in the program? thank you very much..

Never access the QSPL files directly. There is never a reason for anyone but IBM Support to do this and it has always been clearly recommended against by IBM.

As for the original question, it’s still not clear what converting a spooled file to hex values is for. How does converting to hex have anything to do with “print a big characters using RLU”?

I’ve needed to convert spooled output to hex before. I simply copied the spooled file to a database file. Then I used REXX to read each record and output with the C2X (Character to Hexadecimal) function.

Tom