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Locating output data sets allocated by Infoprint Server

z/OS Infoprint Server Operation and Administration
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Locating output data sets allocated by Infoprint Server

Table 9 shows the fields that the JES2 System Display and Search Facility (SDSF) (or a comparable product) displays that can help you locate data sets that Infoprint Server has allocated on the JES spool. The information that SDSF displays in each field depends on how the print request was submitted.

Table 9. SDSF fields
If the print request was submitted in this way:The contents of these SDSF fields are:
Job nameJob IDOwnerLast qualifier of data set name
z/OS® UNIX lp commandUser ID of the job submitter1Infoprint Server job ID2User ID of the job submitterLast eight characters of the name of the file to be printed3
AOPPRINT JCL procedureJob namez/OS job ID assigned by JESUser ID of the job submitterLast eight characters of the name of the file to be printed3
Batch job using a DD JCL statement 4Job namez/OS job ID assigned by JESUser ID of the user who started the Infoprint Server daemonsName specified in the DSNAME JCL parameter 5
Print command or application on a remote system6Name of the job submitter on the remote system1, 7Infoprint Server job ID2User ID of the user who started the Infoprint Server daemonsLast eight characters of the name of the file to be printed3
VTAM® application (such as a CICS® and IMS™ application)Owner name from the printer definition or print data, or the member name of the NetSpool startup procedure1Infoprint Server job ID2User ID of the user who started the Infoprint Server daemonsLU name of the VTAM application (primary LU name)
  1. The job submitter or VTAM application can specify a job name in the sysout-job-name job attribute. If specified, this job name is used instead.
  2. The Infoprint Server job ID starts with the 2–character prefix that is defined in the job-prefix attribute in the Infoprint Server configuration file (aopd.conf) or in the system configuration definition. The default prefix is PS. The job submitter or VTAM application can specify a job ID in the sysout-job-id job attribute. If specified, this job ID is used instead. The lp command returns this job ID to the job submitter.
  3. A # in the data set name indicates that JES does not allow the character in this field. For example, if the file to be printed is myfile.print, this field contains le#print.
  4. Infoprint Server allocates the data set on the JES spool when (1) the job submitter uses the Print Interface subsystem and (2) IP PrintWay™ basic mode sends data sets to the Print Interface LPD, a situation that can occur when the resubmit for filtering option is selected in the printer definition.
  5. A ? in the data set name indicates that the DSNAME parameter was not specified.
  6. Print commands include the lpr, enq, lp, and print commands. Job submitters can also print from a remote system using SAP R/3 or a standard Windows print submission method.
  7. If the document was submitted with an lpr command, this is the user ID specified in the P control code in the LPD control file. If the user ID is unknown, the job name might contain UNKNOWN or ANONYMOU. A # in the name indicates that the name contains a character that JES does not allow.

Tips:

  • JES commands might return a different job ID from the job ID that SDSF displays. JES commands display the z/OS job ID that z/OS assigns to the data set. If the Print Interface subsystem allocated the data set on the JES spool, the JES commands return the same job ID as SDSF displays.
  • The fully qualified data set name might not contain the same values as SDSF displays. For example, the job ID in the fully qualified data set name is always a job ID assigned by z/OS to the data set. The job ID in the data set name matches the job ID displayed by SDSF only for data sets that NetSpool allocates on the JES spool.
  • If Print Interface or NetSpool has already converted EBCDIC data to ASCII, using approximately 32K byte records, you might not be able to use your standard tools to view the data on the spool.
  • When a user requests more than 255 copies of the same data set, multiple output groups for the data set are created on the JES spool. Each output group has the same user ID and job ID. To delete the data set, you must individually delete all output groups for the same data set.

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