Spooler Utilities Reference Manual

Spoolcom
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Spoolcom Features
Spoolcom Features
With Spoolcom, you can
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Display the status of collectors, devices, jobs, print processes, routing structures,
and the spooler itself
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Change the location, state, or any attribute of your job
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Delete your job from the spooler subsystem
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Restart a device that has gone offline with a device error
Other operations performed using Spoolcom can effect the entire spooler subsystem.
For this reason, only authorized users can perform these tasks, which are described in
the Guardian User’s Guide.
Spoolcom Security
Each user can start his or her own spooler process. The user starting the individual
spooler process is called the creator. Authorization to access the spooler process or to
change its configuration parameters is limited, depending on the user ID of the creator
of the spooler process.
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The job creator always has access to his or her own jobs.
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Any system operator (user ID 255, n) is allowed access at all times.
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The person who created the spooler process (by warmstart or by coldstart) is also
authorized access at all times.
All status information requests are granted by the spooler subsystem. Any user can
obtain the status of any job by using Spoolcom or can obtain the status of only his or
her own jobs by using Peruse.
Running Spoolcom
You can run Spoolcom by entering the following command at the TACL prompt:
run-options
are any run options for the command-interpreter RUN command, separated from
each other by commas. See the description of the command-interpreter RUN
command in the TACL Reference Manual for a complete set of the run options.
If you specify OUT filename as a run option, Spoolcom writes the data to the file
in a manner suitable for the file type, process, or device. file-name must be
specified; if the file does not exist, Spoolcom creates an EDIT file (file type 101).
SPOOLCOM [ / run-options / ] [ supervisor ] [ ; command ] ...