Duplication of Output Spool Entries

This function provides the user the possibility of creating up to 99 individual duplicates or copies of spool entries in the LST, PUN, XMT or DEL queues. A copy will have the same spooling characteristics as the original ("master") but itself can be separately manipulated and have a different jobnumber. A duplicate may have up to 15 different spooling parameters and individual jobnumber. The term "duplicate" will be used in the following to indicate either a "copy" or a "duplicate" in the above meaning. Here are some advantages:

• no additional spool data file space is required - only a single queue file record is required for each duplicate or copy.
• a duplicate itself may be duplicated
• each duplicate can be separately manipulated or displayed
• allows to fan out one output entry to different destinations, for example, to local printing, to PSF or TCP/IP LPR printing, to tape offloading, to e-mailing, to networking, or to archiving - all distributed simultaneously.
• the duplicate can be offloaded to tape or transmitted via PNET or RJE (but when reloaded from tape will lose its space savings advantage and require spool data file space as for normal spool entries).

The creation of a spool entry duplicate is invoked by

• the VSE/POWER JECL statements * $$ LSTDUP and * $$ PUNDUP which allow the user to create an output copy and indicate new duplicate spooling parameters. See * $$ LSTDUP: Duplication of List-Output and * $$ PUNDUP: Duplication of Punch-Output.
• the PCOPY command. See PCOPY: Duplicating Spool Output
• the call of IPWSEGM macro with operand DUP=YES in supplied * $$ LST or PUN statement. Refer to VSE/POWER Application Programming.

Duplicates are given the next available jobnumber.