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Question:
I use Query400. The spool files created, contains a first page with information about the query definition. Can Interform400 remove that first page and merge the rest, with an overlay?
Answer:
Yes. From Auto Forms Control(AFC=Sub-system in InterForm400) you can call an exit program. This program is called with the parameters needed for identifying a spool file. Run the command CHGSPLFA with the parameter PAGERANGE(2 *END) in your program, and then merge with an overlay again. It can be done as follows:
As an example a query creates spool files on a AFC monitored output queue with form type: QUERY.
The definitions of AFC could be:
| Update AFC-functions attached to output queues Queue: KSE Library: KSE Seqnbr Funct Form type Save Jobname Filename Device file 0001 6 QUERY Hold Spooled File 0002 8 QUERY Call, program: EXITPGM library: KSE 0003 1 PART Merge, Overlay: DEMO Fileset: KSE |
And the program could look like this:
| /************************************************************/ /* EXIT PROGRAM FROM AFC (AUTO FORMS CONTROL IN INTERFORM) */ /* */ /* THIS PROGRAM CHANGES THE PAGERANGE AND THE FORM TYPE */ /* PARAMETERS OF A SPOOLFILE AND RELEASES THE SPOOLFILE. */ /* */ /* */ /* */ /* */ /************************************************************/ PGM PARM(&JOBNAME &USER &JOBNUMBER &FILENAME + &FILENUMBER &OUTPUTQ &LIBRARY) DCL VAR(&JOBNAME) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10) DCL VAR(&USER) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10) DCL VAR(&JOBNUMBER) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(6) DCL VAR(&FILENAME) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10) DCL VAR(&FILENUMBER) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(4) DCL VAR(&OUTPUTQ) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10) DCL VAR(&LIBRARY) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10) CHGSPLFA FILE(&FILENAME) + JOB(&JOBNUMBER/&USER/&JOBNAME) + SPLNBR(&FILENUMBER) FORMTYPE(PART) + PAGERANGE(2 *END) RLSSPLF FILE(&FILENAME) + JOB(&JOBNUMBER/&USER/&JOBNAME) + SPLNBR(&FILENUMBER) ENDPGM |
If you are not running a light version of InterForm400, you could actually merge the overlay in the exit program by inserting the APF3812/APF3812 command:
| APF3812/APF3812 KARTSET(&FILE_SET) KLICHE(&OVERLAYNAME) + FILNVN(&FILENAME) + JOB(&JOBNUMBER/&USER/&JOBNAME) + SPLNBR(&FILENUMBER) OUTQ(&LIB/&OUTQ) + PRTTYP(HP4) INTERF(ASCII850) DRAWER(5) |
