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From: pengo@tmpmbx.UUCP (Hans H. Huebner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Getting Information about Queues
Message-ID: <633@tmpmbx.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 88 19:28:27 GMT
Organization: netmbx GbR, Berlin - West Germany
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Hello,

I am currently writing a program which *shall* allow for screen oriented
management of print- and batch-queues. The problem is, that i can't figure
out how to get the actual information on what jobs are currently on the queue.
It seems like there is no official way to do this, save capturing the
output of a "SHOW QUEUE" command and reparsing it into machine-readable
data. I don't like this approach too much, so I tried to figure out how
SHOW QUEUE gets the information. SET WATCH FILE told me, that QUEMAN doesn't
access the JBCSYSQUE.DAT-file directly. Looking at the SYS$SNDJBC system
service description and $SJCDEF macros i found an "unused" parameter
and some SJC$_-requests. It seems (to me) like there is the possibility to
get the queue information with these special parameters ($SETUAI has such a
parameter, and you all know what the "bad guys" did with them).
The problem is of course, that these parameters are neither documented nor
supported, and thus it might not be the right way to go.
So here goes the question, does anyone of the gurus here know how to get
hold of the information on queued print jobs from high level languages ?

	Thanks a lot,
			Hans

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