General Spooler Procedures

The following TCL commands, which cannot be executed from the SP-STATUS or SP-JOBS screens, are described in this section:

BUILD.DESPOOLERS: Creates despoolers and form queues for ports and tapes.

BUILD.PRINTERS: Creates despoolers and form queues for host printers.

DESPOOLER.DETAIL: Lists information about despoolers on a database.

DSPMON: Manages despoolers.

PORT-DESPOOL: Despools print jobs to a port.

RESET.DESPOOLER: Resets the despooler system.

SP-ASSIGN: Sets up assignments for a report number.

SP-CLOSE:Closes an open report.

SP-COPY: Copies a job from one job file to another.

SP-DESC: Sets and displays a description in a print job control item.

SP-EJECT: Creates a print job comprising form-feeds.

SP-FIX: Cleans up print jobs left in an inconsistent state.after a program crashes.

SP-FORMQUEUE: Lists all print jobs in a formqueue.

SP-LOOK: Displays the current default Spooler assignment.

SP-TAPEOUT: Reads print jobs from tape and re-queues them in a formqueue.