The Work with Printer Output display shows you the status of printer output. Use this list to do common tasks related to printer output, such as selecting a printer, changing the printer the output goes to, holding or releasing the printer output, or changing other printing options. From this display, you can use F22, if available, to work with printers.
Field Descriptions
User
This field shows the name of the user whose printer output is shown.
To display other users‘ printer output, specify the user's name or *ALL to display all users‘ printer output. You can press F4 to see a list of user names to choose from when the cursor is positioned in the field.
You can use the asterisk (*) after any characters to show a list of all printer output for user names that start with the specified characters. For example, if you enter T*, you will get a list of all users that begin with T and their printer output. If you enter SMI*, you will get a list of all users that begin with SMI (Smirf, Smith, Smitty, and so on) and their printer output.
To display other user's printer output, you must have *JOBCTL or *SPLCTL authority.
Options
Type an option number in the Opt column next to a printer output name and press Enter. You can type option numbers next to more than one printer output to do tasks one after the other. Only the options that you have authority to do are shown. You can choose:
2=Change
Shows you a display where you can change the following information for your printer output:
- The printer to use
- The number of copies to print
- The first page of output to print
- The last page of output to print
- The type of forms to print on
- Whether to print this output next
- Whether to save the printer output
3=Hold
Holds the printer output. The output is temporarily stopped from printing and is not printed until it is released.
4=Delete
Deletes the printer output and removes it from the system.
5=Display
Displays the contents of the printer output on your display. This is what will actually print on the printer.
6=Release
If the printer output is held, it is released so that it can print.
7=Message
If the printer output status is Message Waiting or Printer Message, this option displays the message the printer output is waiting on. You can also reply to the message if you have the proper authority.
9=Work with printing status
Allows you to get more technical information about the status and gives directions on how to work with the status.
10=Start printing
If the printer is stopped, you can start the printer you want to print on. If the printer output has not been assigned to a printer you can specify and start the printer you want to print on.
11=Restart printing
Allows you to start a printer that stopped before printing all the printer output. Shows you a display with options to specify:
- The page you want to restart printing on
- If you want to print the printer output next
- A printer to use if a printer has not been specified
- If you want to save the printer output
Printer/Output
The name of a printer followed by the name of each piece of printer output waiting to print on that printer. The names of the printer output are indented 2 positions under the printer names. If the name of the printer is Not Assigned, a printer has not been specified for the printer output.
The printer output name is either a 10-character name that was used to describe the piece of printer output when it was created or if no name was specified, the printer output name is the file name used by the program that created the printer output.
Status
The status of the printer output is shown. The status can be any of the following:
- Printer stopped: Use option 10 (if available) to start printing. Otherwise, contact your system operator.
- Printer waiting: Use option 9 (if available) to print. Otherwise, contact your system operator.
- Printer message: Use option 7 (if available) to display and answer the message that is preventing the printer from printing. Otherwise, contact your system operator.
- Message waiting: Use option 7 (if available) to display and answer the message needing a reply for this printer output. Otherwise, contact your system operator.
- Waiting to print: Will print after printer output ahead of it prints.
- Still being created: A program is still creating this printer output.
- Not scheduled to print yet: A job must finish before this output prints.
- Held: Use option 6 (if available) to release.
- Printed and kept: Use option 6 to print this printer output again.
- Printing page x of y: Currently printing.
- Not assigned to printer: Use option 10 to assign the printer output to print on a specific printer.
- Printing starting or ending: Press F5 (Refresh) to see if the status has changed.
Command Keys
F1 (Help): Provides additional information about using the display or a specific field on the display.
F3 (Exit): Exit the panel without processing any pending changes.
F4 (List): Shows a list of users on the system.
F5 (Refresh): Refreshes the panel and resets all available text fields.
F9 (Command line): Displays a command line that allows you to enter system commands. Note: This is not shown if you don't have the correct authority.
F11 (Dates/pages/forms): Changes the information displayed to show the date/time the printer output was created, the number of copies, total number of pages, and the form type that the printer output is to be printed on.
F12 (Cancel): Exit the panel without processing any pending changes.
F14 (Select other printer output): Allows you to change the contents of the printer output list. You can select the user, printer, status, and printer output.
F20 (Include system output): Displays job logs and printouts of storage (only shown if you have the correct authority).
F21 (Select assistance level): Allows you to select the level of assistance you want when interacting with the system. Possible choices (if available) are:
1=Basic assistance level
Shows the displays that provide the most assistance. Basic assistance level supports the more common user and operator tasks and does not use computer terminology.
2=Intermediate assistance level
Shows the displays that support all system tasks and uses computer terminology. Complicated tasks can be done using this level.
3=Advanced interface
Shows the displays that provide the same functions as the intermediate assistance level. However, the displays contain as much information as possible by not displaying the allowed function keys and options.
F22 (Work with printers): Displays a list of printers on the system on which the user has output printing or waiting to print and allows you to work with the printers.
F24 (More keys): Changes the list of function keys shown at the bottom of the display (listed above).