Spooler Plus Utilities Reference Manual

Introduction to the Spooler Plus Subsystem

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Job Location

For example, if an application program produces a job that fills out W-2 forms, the job

must be printed on a device loaded with special W-2 form paper. If the job has a form

name of W2, it will print only on a device that has the same form name. The form

name W2 is assigned to the device when the special paper is loaded.

Job Location

The job location can be associated with a physical print device on the system or with a

dummy holding location. Job location is described in detail later in this section under

Routing Structure.

Job State

Job status is described by the job state. A job can be in one of five states:

•

OPEN

•

READY

•

HOLD

•

WAIT

Figure 1-3 illustrates the job states and how they relate to the life cycle of a spooler

job.

You create a job when your application opens a collector process and writes to it; for

example:

TFORM / IN filename, OUT $S.device /

A job in the OPEN state is being added to the spooler. For example, if you send the

output from a TFORM process to the spooler, the job is in the OPEN state until the

TFORM output is complete.

A job in the WAIT state is waiting to be queued to the devices on which it is intended to

be printed.

Figure 1-3. Life Cycle of a Spooler Job

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Job is

created

OPEN WAIT

READY

HOLD

Job is

deleted