Printing archives

Tip: To find the archive to be printed, you can click the Search button on the Archive Listing page and specify search criteria.

The Print Settings window is displayed.

All fields are optional. If you specify no values (leave the fields blank or accept the default values), the archived SYSOUT is printed using the default values that have been defined for printing JES output on your system.

Name

Type the name of the recipient (a person or location). This value can be up to 60 characters in length. It can be composed of alphanumeric characters, national characters ($, #, @), and various special characters. If an invalid character is specified in this field, the field text is highlighted in red and a message box appears indicating the name of the field in error along with a list of valid characters.

Title

Type a title to include on the separator pages for the printed archived SYSOUT (for example, "Annual Report"). This value can be up to 60 characters in length. It can be composed of alphanumeric characters, national characters ($, #, @), and various special characters. If an invalid character is specified in this field, the field text is highlighted in red and a message box appears indicating the name of the field in error along with a list of valid characters.

Dept

Type the name of the recipient's department. This value can be up to 60 characters in length. It can be composed of alphanumeric characters, national characters ($, #, @), and various special characters. If an invalid character is specified in this field, the field text us highlighted in red and a message box appears indicating the name of the field in error along with a list of valid characters.

Room

Type the identifier for the room in which the recipient is located. This value can be up to 60 characters in length. It can be composed of alphanumeric characters, national characters ($, #, @), and various special characters. If an invalid character is specified in this field, the field text is highlighted in red and a message box appears indicating the name of the field in error along with a list of valid characters.

Building

Type the identifier for the building in which the recipient is located. This value can be up to 60 characters in length. It can be composed of alphanumeric characters, national characters ($, #, @), and various special characters. If an invalid character is specified in this field, the field text is highlighted in red and a message box appears indicating the name of the field in error along with a list of valid characters.

Address

Type the recipient's mailing address. This value can be up to 60 characters in length. It can be composed of alphanumeric characters, national characters ($, #, @), and various special characters. If an invalid character is specified in this field, the field text is highlighted in red and a message box appears indicating the name of the field in error along with a list of valid characters.

Class

Specify the SYSOUT class for the archived SYSOUT data set. This value must be composed of one alphanumeric character (a letter from A through Z or a number from 0 through 9).

Dest

Type the name of the the destination for the archived SYSOUT data set. A destination can be a remote or local terminal, a node, a node and remote workstation, a local device or group of devices, or a node and user ID.

Pagedef

Type the name of a member on the z/OS® system that contains statements to direct the Print Services Facility (PSF) how to print a data set on a page-mode printer. The data set can hold SYSOUT from the spool or be allocated directly to a printer. These statements can indicate:

• The logical page length and width
• Fonts
• Page segments
• Multiple page types or formats
• Lines within a page
• Multiple logical pages on a physical page

This member must be in the library that is named in the cataloged procedure for initializing the PSF or in a library that is specified in the USERLIB parameter.

Formdef

Type the name of a member on the z/OS system that contains statements to direct the PSF how to print a report data set on a page-mode printer such as the 3800 Printing Subsystem Model 3. These statements can indicate:

• Overlay forms to use during printing
• The location on a page where the overlays are to be placed
• Suppressions that can be activated for specific page format

This member must be in the library that is named in the cataloged procedure for initializing the PSF or in a library that is specified in the USERLIB parameter.

Forms

Type the name of the form on which the report data set is to be printed or punched. This name can be up to eight characters long and is composed of alphanumeric characters or national characters ($, #, @).

UCS

Type the name of the universal character set (UCS) that JES is to use when printing the SYSOUT data set. This value can be up to four characters long.

FCB

Type the name of the Forms Control Block (FCB) that JES is to use when printing the SYSOUT data set. This name can be up to four characters long

OPTCD

The default value is blank. The only other valid value for this field is J.

PRMODE

Indicates a printer process mode (Prmode).

TRC

Indicate whether the logical records for the report data set contain table reference character (TRC) codes by selecting \Yes or No from the list. A TRC code indicates which font in the Char arg tbl field to use for printing a record. Select either Yes (include TRC codes) or No (do not include TRC codes).

Copies

Specify the number of copies to print. You can specify a number from 0 through 255 (on JES2). The default value of 0 indicates that no copies should be physically printed. Corresponds to the JCL COPIES parameter.

Priority

Specify a print priority value from 0 (lowest priority) to 255 (highest priority). The higher the priority value, the sooner a report is printed.

Writer

Type the name of the external writer that is to process the archived SYSOUT data set instead of JES. This name can be up to eight characters in length.

Duplex

Select a duplex mode in which to print the archived SYSOUT. The list includes the following options:

• No - Print the archived SYSOUT on one side of the paper only (not duplexed).
• Normal - Print the archived SYSOUT on both sides the paper (duplexed), and bind it along the long edge of the paper.
• Tumble - Print the archived SYSOUT on both sides of the paper (duplexed), and bind it along the short edge of the paper.

Line count

Type the maximum number of lines that can be printed per page. You can specify a value from 0 through 255. (This field applies to only to JES2 systems.)

Chars

Specifies the name of one or more coded fonts for printing SYSOUT on an AFP printer. Corresponds to the CHARS parameter.

Burst

Type either YES or NO to indicate whether you want to physically 'burst' reports. This process separates a report into smaller reports based on specific criteria such as branch number.

Flash

Type the name of the forms overlay frame to be inserted into the printer before printing the report data set on a 3800 printer. You can specify the name of a specific forms overlay frame. This name can be up to four characters in length and can be composed of alphanumeric characters and national characters ($, #, @). Alternatively, you can specify NONE to suppress flashing for the SYSOUT data set.

Modify

Type the name of a copy-modification module that specifies how to print the SYSOUT on a 3800 printing subsystem. Corresponds to the MODIFY parameter.

Copy grp

Specifies how many copies of each page are to be printed, with a maximum of eight group-values. Each group-value is 1 through 3 decimal values. Each group-value is 1 through 3 decimal numbers, with a valid range from 1 through 255. Corresponds to the COPYG parameter, COPYG=(group-value[,group-value]...). The default for these fields is 0.

Banner

Select a banner from the drop-down list. Banners provide additional information that you want to include in report printouts, for example, delivery instructions.

Page Ranges

Specify the pages, range of pages, or multiple ranges of pages, that are to be printed. This option allows you to specify that only part of the archived SYSOUT is to be printed (partial reprint). You can specify individual pages with a space between each page number, (for example 1 3 5 7), or a range of pages using a colon (for example specifying 1:5 prints pages 1 through 5, inclusive). When specifying a range of pages, the first number must be smaller than the second number.