Comments on: User to release & print spool file belonging to operator http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/user-to-release-print-spool-file-belonging-to-operator/ Sun, 19 May 2013 00:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: splat http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/user-to-release-print-spool-file-belonging-to-operator/#comment-79998 splat Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:39:17 +0000 #comment-79998 We got around that issue (admittedly on a smaller scale) by building a report distribution program that runs every hour. All reports from nightly runs are directed to a hold output queue – the program reads a data queue attached to the output queue and, using a file to control direction, uses SNDTCPSPLF to effect the distribution.

]]> By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/user-to-release-print-spool-file-belonging-to-operator/#comment-79972 tomliotta Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:33:56 +0000 #comment-79972 It’s hard to certain without knowing something about your environment. In particular what is your OS VRM level?

In recent releases, spool file ownership has been changing. The OVRPRTF SPLFOWN() parameter is supplied in order to help control ownership. You might have the job run OVRPRTF to set the desired owner before calling the program that is currently called. The output location may be set at the same time.

With appropriate ownership, special authorities for users shouldn’t be an issue.

Tom

]]> By: dand http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/user-to-release-print-spool-file-belonging-to-operator/#comment-79965 dand Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:44:17 +0000 #comment-79965 If there is only one user receiving the reports, you can specify an outqueue in the sbmjob.

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