Formqueues

This section helps you to understand the formqueues.

You can create number of formqueues (there is no limit) for various logical types.
STANDARD is the default formqueue created using the SP-NEWTAB command.
You can create new formqueues using the SP-CREATE command or SP-STATUS menu.
You can modify the formqueue device assignment using the SP-DEVICE command or SP-STATUS menu.
SP-STATUS and SP-JOBS menus display the status of the formqueues and print jobs.

Formqueue De-activation and Re-assignment

You can deactivate and reassign a formqueue to another available logical device without stopping and restarting it. After this reassignment, the next print job that has to be despooled will be directed to the new logical device type.

EXAMPLE: If the REPORTS formqueue is despooling to logical device type PROG lp -d lptr, you can issue the following command.

SP-DEVICE REPORTS PROG lp -d laser

The next and subsequent print jobs will be output to the logical device PROG lp -d laser. In other words, the command redirects REPORTS to the UNIX spooler lp for device name laser.

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