programmatically get the list of spool file in vb.net

[Dal Monte]

Hello all,
i'm trying to get a list of spool file, and retrive a selected spool file
from vb.net using soa. The problem is that i'm not able to find a
documentation abount cwbx methods/property. What i has been able to do is
connect to the as400 and make a call, but i cound not find any soa
documentation about out to retrive the list of spool file and how to retrive
one. I'd only find a c example of how to do it, but the methods (like
CWBSO_CreateListHandle) are not applicable to vb.net...

could someone help me?

thanx in advance
D.

[JTF]

There are several (paid and free) tools out there to make a PDF. I believe there may also be a way to do it through the OS (need to check though)

My idea is to have the program in question create a PDF version of the print-out(s) and store them in an IFS folder. Through VB, you can just get the PDF from an IFS share.

[Dal Monte]

"JTF" <jfl...@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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I would like to make it inside my app, but i could use also a free tool (but
not printing to a virtual printer like pdfcreator because the result it's
very bad!). My gol it's to have a spool file in excel... i seen an java
procedure working for this (released by ibm) eventually, it there isn't an
other solution i'll call that procedure by vb, but for me it's a "dirty"
solution...

thanx in advance
D.

[Jonathan Ball]

Try the Open List of Spooled Files (QGYOLSPL) API:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=%2Fapis%2Fqgyolspl.htm

The documentation link is for V5R4 of the operating system.

[Qwerty]

This is example get list of SPLF and call DLTSPLF for each.

http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/SLKBase.nsf/1ac66549a21402188625680b0002037e/b9aad3d06604c8e4862566af005bc738?OpenDocument&ExpandSection=-1

https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas192c8e3c06622aad686256d440070d2ae&wv=1

You can you same API.