COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Printer and Spooler Output
HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
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Jobs
A job in the HOLD state remains in the spooler until you or a system operator changes
the job’s state or deletes the job. Remember that the number of jobs the spooler can
hold is limited, as is the amount of disk space available for the text of those jobs.
Number of Copies
The default number of copies is 1. If you want several copies of your report, specify a
number of copies (a number in the range from 1 through 32,767). When the spooler
finds an available device for the job, it prints that many copies before freeing the device
for another job.
Your installation might have rules limiting how many copies you may run or how many
pages you may print with a single job; check with your operations staff.
Priority
A job’s priority determines when the job is printed in relation to other jobs queued for
the same device. The default priority is 4. The system operator can configure each
device known to the spooler to print jobs of the same priority in a first-come, first-
served order or in shorter-jobs-before-longer-jobs order.
Report Name
The spooler passes the report name to the print process. If your installation uses the
print process supplied by HP, the system operator can configure it to either leave a
blank page between jobs or print a header page. The header page displays the report
name in banner-head letters on the first page of the job, along with the location name.
In ordinary type at the bottom of the first page, the print process reports the date and
time, the job number, and the form name of the job.
A report name can have up to 16 characters. No character can be a hyphen. The
default report name is your group name and user name. You can use PERUSE or
SPOOLCOM to change the report name.
If you are using a different print process, that print process can do anything with the
report name.