How to use Submit Statement for mutiple Spools.

Question

Hi Gurus,
I have a requirement wherein I need to Submit a Report Program to SAP-SPOOL which generates output for multiple Idocs.
For each Idoc I need to attach the spool to a particular object_id.
As of now I am doing this by putting the Submit statement in a loop.
I want to meet the same functionality without using a loop for different Idocs.
Ex.
LOOP AT IDOCS.
CALL FUNCTION 'GET_PRINT_PARAMETERS'
CALL FUNCTION 'JOB_OPEN'
IF sy-subrc = 0.
  SUBMIT YFAPINV_IDOC_RPTS  TO SAP-SPOOL    "USING SELECTION-SCREEN '1000'
    WITHOUT SPOOL DYNPRO
    SPOOL PARAMETERS print_parameters
    WITH CREDATE IN CREDATE
    WITH CRETIME IN CRETIME
    WITH DOCNUM IN DOCNUM
    WITH VENDOR IN VENDOR
    WITH V_INVOIC IN V_INVOIC
    WITH MESCODE IN MESCODE
    WITH DOCSTAT IN DOCSTAT
    WITH DC_NBR IN DC_NBR
    WITH DOC_TYPE IN DOC_TYPE
    WITH S_BSART IN S_BSART
    WITH ap1_flag eq 'X'
    AND RETURN.
  IF sy-subrc EQ 0.
    CALL FUNCTION 'JOB_CLOSE'
  ENDIF.
ENDIF.
SELECT  rqident rqcretime FROM tsp01
INTO (rqident,rqcretime)
WHERE rqowner = sy-uname
ORDER BY rqcretime DESCENDING.
  EXIT.
ENDSELECT.
IF rqident IS NOT INITIAL.
  CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERT_ABAPSPOOLJOB_2_PDF'
DATA l_line TYPE docs-lines.
  LOOP AT l_tline.
    CLEAR l_line.
    MOVE l_tline-tdline TO l_line.
    l_docs-lines = l_line.
    APPEND l_docs.
  ENDLOOP.
ENDIF.

Answer 1

Hi,
Each submit will create only one spool. So I dont think this is possible. Yes what you can do though is that submit the program for all the IDocs at once ( provided your program YFAPINV can handle this) and then process the spool and separate the output for each IDoc after you retrieve the data from spool.
To retrieve the data from the spool, you can use the function 'RSPO_RETURN_ABAP_SPOOLJOB' pass the spool request number and it will return you a internal table with the spool data.
regards,
Advait