topic Re: recover print queue forms in Operating System - OpenVMS

recover print queue forms

TMcB — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:10:39 GMT

hello

does anyone know if the print queue form definitions are stored in a file.

We deleted print forms which we thought were unused - it turns out we need them.
I was hoping I would be able to recover a file to see how they were defined

Thanks

Re: recover print queue forms

John Abbott_2 — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:25:20 GMT

They're held in the queue manager master file

Issue a

$ show queue/manager/full

Master file: xxx

I'd restore to another location a backup of this file. It's an index file with a couple of keys, but if you simply dump the file you should be able to work out what you've lost $ define/form wise.

Regards
John.

Re: recover print queue forms

Jan van den Ende — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:33:54 GMT

TMcB,

John gave good advise,

_IF_ you have a "playing" system, then restore the file there. STOP/QUE/MANAGER and DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXEC QMAN$MASTER to the directory where you placed the restored file. START/QUE/MANAGER; and capture the output of SHOW QUE/FORM.
.. and reboot your play box :-) to regain consistency.

hth

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe
Proost.

Re: recover print queue forms

TMcB — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:44:26 GMT

thanks very much for the solutions.
Much appreciated

Re: recover print queue forms

John Abbott_2 — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:45:10 GMT

Ahh yes, good idea Jan :-)

If you're able to, include the /FULL/OUTPUT=file qualifiers to the SHOW/QUEUE/FORM output and you'll have it all in clear text for a nice edit massage session ! much neater than dump/rec !

John.

Re: recover print queue forms

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:09:50 GMT

We use this enclosure to keep our queues and form setups in a readable file. Also used it for moving queues from one cluster to another.

It just generates a .com with all re-creation commands in it.

Wim

Re: recover print queue forms

Jess Goodman — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:39:20 GMT

I've attached my DISPLAY_FORMS.COM which can be used to save off all the current form definitions in a command file as the full set of DEFINE/FORM commands.

It is a companion procedure to my DISPLAY_JOBS.COM (latest version available at http://dcl.openvms.org) and uses some of the same techniques for handling quoted strings and too-long lines.

Wim, your command procedure looks like it could be very useful, but I think there was some formatting issues in the attachment, perhaps caused by WORD. A bunch of lines end with:
+ "Â¥"

Also it runs a program called GET_SPEED.

Re: recover print queue forms

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:28:41 GMT

Jess,

Very good you tested it. The rabbit heads are used as separator and are normal (I opened it with notepad).

The get_speed is missing here too. I'm going to remove it. Just ignore it unless you still use terminal speeds (we don't). Or put 9600 in it.

Wim

Re: recover print queue forms

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:30:15 GMT

BTW : I only get + "Â¥".

Wim