Spooler Plus Utilities Reference Manual

Spoolcom

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Spoolcom Commands

A Spoolcom command summary describing the features available to all users is given

in Table 3-2.

Table 3-2. Spoolcom Command Summary for All Users (page1of2)

Command Function

BATCH Alters attributes and changes the state of your batch jobs. This command

also obtains the status of any batch job in the spooler subsystem.

COLLECT Obtains the status of spooler collectors.

COMMENT Designates a comment to be ignored by Spoolcom.

DEV Controls and obtains the status of devices in the spooler subsystem. While

a device is printing a job, the owner of that job can issue a SKIP or SKIPTO

subcommand on that device. Anyone can use START on an offline device

that has not been put offline by a DRAIN subcommand issued.

ENV Shows current settings for job numbers, batch numbers, STARTCOL, and

NUMCOL.

EXIT Terminates a Spoolcom session.

FC Allows edit and reexecution of the previous command line. It is similar to the

TACL FC command, but works only for the most recent previous command.

FILES Displays the names of all files in the specified or default subvolume.

FIND Finds a string in the current job.

HELP Displays the syntax of Spoolcom commands for user reference.

JOB Alters attributes and changes the state of your jobs. This command also

obtains the status of any jobs in the spooler subsystem. The subcommand

CURRENT will make a job number the current job.

LIST Lists all or part of the current job.

LOC Displays the status of the spooler routing structure.

NEXT Makes the next job number the current job.

NUMCOL Allows the number of columns listed by the LIST command to be changed.

OPEN Specifies the particular spooler subsystem to which the other Spoolcom

commands refer.

PAGE Changes and displays the page position of the current job.

POLL Prints the status of up to the first 64 available Spoolcom user jobs each time

the state of any of the jobs changes.

PRINT Obtains the status of the spooler print processes.

PURGE Purges the specified file. This file must be the spooler job file.

PUT Creates the edit-file-name and loads it with the current job. ! purges the

existing file prior to creation and load.