Function

This exit allows you to:

Produce your own print/punch separators
Control production of standard print/punch separators for batch jobs or transaction programs (TP)
Create separators that include the security label for the job output for JES2 managed printers, if your security policy requires it.

When using this exit to control the production of standard separators, you can:

Unconditionally suppress production of standard separators
Direct JES2 to unconditionally produce standard separators
Allow JES2 to produce any standard separators that are in effect.

JES2 determines whether standard separators are in effect for any particular device by using the initialization statement or the operator command separator options provided by your installation at any given time; Programming considerations describes these options.

For punch devices, JES2 provides the option of producing start-of-job header cards and trailer cards. For printers, JES2 provides the option of producing start-of-job header pages, continuation-of-job header pages, and trailer pages. Start-of-job header pages are produced at each output data set group (represented by a work JOE) within a job. Continuation-of-job header pages are produced for the continuation of a data set group if printing has been interrupted. Therefore, you are able to control the production of separators on a job-by-job basis and, for printers/punches on a data set group basis. See z/OS JES2 Initialization and Tuning Guide for a sample separator page.

Each time your exit routine is called, you can direct JES2:

To produce only your own separator (unconditionally suppressing production of the standard separator)
To produce only the standard separator, if it is in effect (without producing your own separator)
To produce the standard separator unconditionally
To produce your own separator followed by the standard separator, if the standard separator is in effect (for example, your own start-of-job header page followed by the standard start-of-job header page)
To produce your own separator and then to produce the standard separator unconditionally
To produce no separator (by not producing your own separator and by suppressing production of the standard separator)
To print or suppress the JESNEWS data set, regardless of whether a separator is produced