Spooler Plus Programmer's Guide

Introduction to the Spooler Plus Subsystem
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Devices
The Spoolcom PRINT DELETE command removes the independent print process from
the spooler subsystem but does not stop the physical process. Second, stop the
physical process by issuing the TACL STOP command. When you use both of these
commands to stop an independent print process, no error message is written to the log
file.
Stopping an independent print process without using the Spoolcom PRINT DELETE
command or abending an independent print process results in error %5311 (current
path to device is down). This error occurs regardless of the state of the independent
print process prior to the stop or abend. An error message is written to the spooler log
file.
To restart an abended print process or one stopped without the Spoolcom PRINT
DELETE command, start the physical print process first. Then restart the independent
print process using the following Spoolcom command:
PRINT print-process-name, START
The Spoolcom PRINT START command clears the PRINT and DEV error states and
begins the print job.
When restarting an independent print process that was stopped with both the
Spoolcom PRINT DELETE and TACL STOP commands, the order of the procedures
does not matter. You can run the physical process before or after reconfiguring and
starting the print process using Spoolcom.
Devices
Most jobs eventually print on a spooler device, which can be a physical device (such
as a line printer, terminal, or tape drive), a process, or a virtual device (explained in
Declaring and Initializing Devices on page 1-20).