Determining work-selection criteria (basic mode)

You define work-selection criteria for each IP PrintWay FSA during JES initialization. These criteria can determine which output data sets each FSA selects from the JES spool. You specify the work-selection criteria on the WS parameter of either the JES2 PRTnnnnn statement or the JES3 DEVICE statement. JES2 and JES3 let you specify various work-selection criteria, which correspond to JCL parameters.

Do not confuse JES work-selection criteria with the criteria that IP PrintWay uses to select printers, called "printer-selection criteria". In most cases, JES work-selection criteria are more general, while IP PrintWay printer-selection criteria are more specific:
  • JES uses work-selection criteria to select output data sets from the JES spool for FSAs. For example, you might specify class P as the JES work-selection criterion for several FSAs.
  • IP PrintWay uses printer-selection criteria to select printers. IP PrintWay uses either the printer definition name or a combination of the DEST, CLASS, and FORMS values that are specified in the OUTPUT JCL statement to select printers. For example, if CLASS=P and DEST=MYPRT are specified on the OUTPUT JCL statement for an output data set, the IP PrintWay FSA that acquired this data set from JES selects the printer definition that the administrator defined with CLASS P and DEST MYPRT. For more information on using DEST, CLASS, and FORMS to select a printer definition, see z/OS Infoprint Server Operation and Administration.
Some considerations that are related to selecting work-selection criteria are:
  • Some work-selection criteria that you might consider for data sets to be processed by IP PrintWay are: output class, form name, and destination name.
  • Do not specify destination as a work-selection criterion if job submitters in your installation plan to specify the printer host name or IP address in the DEST=IP: JCL parameter or in the printer-ip-address job attribute. The reason is that JES does not use the host name or IP address that is specified as an OUTPUT JCL parameter when it determines whether an output data set meets the work-selection criteria that are defined for an FSA.
  • In a JES3 environment, specify form as a work-selection criterion if your installation wants IP PrintWay to use the form name that is specified in a JCL statement to select any printer definitions in the Printer Inventory. This is because JES3 passes the form name that is specified as a JCL parameter to the IP PrintWay FSA only if form is a JES work-selection criterion.

    If you specify form as a work-selection criterion, and also specify DYNAMIC=YES in the JES3 DEVICE statement, JES3 does not start the IP PrintWay FSA dynamically unless an output data set's form attribute (and all other attributes) match the FSA's work selection criterion. Therefore, consider specifying DYNAMIC=NO (this is the JES3 default).

  • In a JES3 environment, specify FCB as a work-selection criterion if you want IP PrintWay to do FCB processing. The reason is that JES3 passes the FCB name that is specified as a JCL parameter to the PrintWay FSA only when FCB is a JES work-selection criterion.