Searching for printer attributes

You can filter the list of printer attributes on the Printer Attributes panel or search for a specific set of printer attributes. If you want Output Manager to apply the search criteria to the Printer Attributes panel the next time you display it, you can save the criteria to your ISPF profile.

About this task

To search for printer attributes:

Procedure

  1. From the Output Manager main menu, choose option A, Administrative Functions, and press Enter.
  2. From the Administrative Functions menu, choose option K, Printer Attributes, and press Enter.
    The search panel is displayed.
  3. In the Print Attribute name field, type the user-defined name for an printer attribute. You can specify a value up to 16 characters long. The following wildcards are permitted: the asterisk (*) or percent sign (%) for zero or more trailing characters, or the question mark (?) or underscore (_) for a single character anywhere in the name. If you specify a wildcard pattern, Output Manager will find all printer attributes that have names matching the pattern.
  4. In the Class field, type the user-defined one-character output class for the SYSOUT data set. This value can be a letter from A to Z or number from 0 through 9, and corresponds to the JCL CLASS parameter. The following wildcards are permitted: the asterisk (*) or percent sign (%) for zero or more trailing characters, or the question mark (?) or underscore (_) for a single character anywhere in the name. If you specify a wildcard pattern, Output Manager will find all printer attributes that have classes matching the pattern.
  5. In the Destination field, type the user-defined destination for the SYSOUT data set. A destination can be a remote or local terminal, a node, a node and a remote work station, a node and userid, or a local device or group of devices, and corresponds to the JCL DEST parameter. The following wildcards are permitted: the asterisk (*) or percent sign (%) for zero or more trailing characters, or the question mark (?) or underscore (_) for a single character anywhere in the name. If you specify a wildcard pattern, Output Manager will find all printer attributes that have destinations matching the pattern.
  6. In the Form field, type the user-defined Forms Control Block (FCB) that JES is to use when printing the SYSOUT data set. This name can be up to eight characters long. The following wildcards are permitted: the asterisk (*) or percent sign (%) for zero or more trailing characters, or the question mark (?) or underscore (_) for a single character anywhere in the name. If you specify a wildcard pattern, Output Manager will find all printer attributes that have forms matching the pattern.
  7. In the Writer field, type the user-defined Forms Control Block (FCB) that JES is to use when printing the SYSOUT data set. This name can be up to eight characters long. The following wildcards are permitted: the asterisk (*) or percent sign (%) for zero or more trailing characters, or the question mark (?) or underscore (_) for a single character anywhere in the name. If you specify a wildcard pattern, Output Manager will find all printer attributes that have writers matching the pattern.
  8. In the Formdef field, type the user-defined name of the library member that contains statements to direct how the Print Services Facility™ (PSF) should print reports on a page-mode printer, such as a 3800 Printing Subsystem Model 3. The statements can indicate the overlay forms to use and the suppressions for specified page formats. Corresponds to the JCL FORMDEF parameter. The following wildcards are permitted: the asterisk (*) or percent sign (%) for zero or more trailing characters, or the question mark (?) or underscore (_) for a single character anywhere in the name. If you specify a wildcard pattern, Output Manager will find all printer attributes that have formdefs matching the pattern.
  9. In the Pagedef field, type the user-defined name of the library member that contains statements to direct how the PSF should print a data set on a page-mode printer. The data set can be SYSOUT from the spool or a data set that is allocated directly to the printer. The statements can indicate the logical page length and width, fonts, page segments, page types or formats, lines within a page, and logical pages on a physical page. Corresponds to the PADGEDEF parameter. The following wildcards are permitted: the asterisk (*) or percent sign (%) for zero or more trailing characters, or the question mark (?) or underscore (_) for a single character anywhere in the name. If you specify a wildcard pattern, Output Manager will find all printer attributes that have pagedefs matching the pattern.
  10. In the Save Criteria? field, type Yes if you want to save the search criteria that you specified to your ISPF profile. Output Manager will then use the saved search criteria to filter the list of printer attributes from session to session, until you change the criteria. If you want to use the search criteria temporarily (for a one-time search), accept the default value of No. Output Manager will filter the current list of printer attributes and then clear the search criteria and revert to the last-saved values (if any) when you exit the Printer Attributes panel.
  11. Press Enter.
    The Printer Attributes panel lists only the printer attributes that match your search criteria.