CaSpool

CaSpool

O CaSpool e uma ferramenta para Printers (impressoras). Usada para ver o Status, parar a impressora, cancelar impressao, ver o que estasendo impresso e onde, etc.

Esta seria a primeira tela do CaSpool

F - Display files awaiting print
FA - Display all files
P - Display printers

? - Help
OP - Set owner prefix
PP - Set printer prefix
RP - Set report prefix
RG - Set related group
RN - Set related printername

SUB - Set subsystem name

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Se for escolhida a opcao F, para Files Awaiting Print digitando na linha de comando, a seguinte tela vai abrir:

Spool (MYTSOID ) Files Ln 1 - 14 / 1010
Sub CASP Nje RN RG RU Col 1 to 62 of 228

Action Seqno . Filename . Dest … . . Q . Form … Fcb . . Pages . Cpy . Pr . Sid . Stat
… … . . 999 . . BLABLABL . XXXXXXXX . A . PC35 … 6 … … 1 … . . 1 . .. 1 … … . .

Esta tela mostra os Files que estao na fila de impressao, onde estao sendo impressos, numero de paginas, numero de copias, etc. Digitando a tecla F11, outras colunas vao aparecer, mostrando mais informacoes sobre o File. Caso se queira fazer algo com os Files, a coluna Action seria usada para tais acoes nos Files, como Cancel, Stop, etc.

Segue abaixo a terminologia e a explicacao dos campos de acoes e status dos Files, dadas pelo proprio CaSpool. Estao as opcoes para se usar em um File na coluna Action.

The meaning of the fields are as follows:

Action Specifies action to be taken. Valid actions are:

BROWSE or S - browse file
DOWNLOAD or D - download to PC
HOLD or H - hold file
ISPFBR or B - ISPF browse, only valid under ISPF
MODIFY or M - modify file attributes
NEWCOPY or N - make a new copy of the file
PURGE or P - purge file
RELEASE or A - release file
REPRINT or R - reprint file
VIEW or V - view page mode file using GDDM (ISPF/CICS only)
? - show valid actions
blank/none - extended display

Acima, estao as opcoes para se usar em um File na coluna de Action.

Aqui sao os significados das outras colunas da tela de Files Awaiting Print:

Seqno - File sequence number
Filename - Filename
Dest - Destination
Q - Output class
Form - Formcode
Fcb - FCB image
Lines - Number of print lines
Pages - Number of print pages
Cpy - Number of copies
Pr - Output priority
Sid - System affinity
Stat - Status = A - Active / S - Queued for SAR transfer / H - Held / I - Open for read / O - Open for write / P - Being purged / T - Temporarily closed / W - Awaiting transfer / X - Being transfered / Y - Queued for Transformation
Ret - Retention period in hours
0Part/prt - Partial print ( start page / number of pages)
Rmt dest - Printer name in receiving NJE system
Lc - Lines per page on NOCC files
Lrecl - Logical record length
Formd - Formdef
Paged - Pagedef
Chars - Character arrangement table
Prmode - Process mode = LINE - normal line data / PAGE - AFP datastream / PCL - PCL datastream /PS - PostScript datastream / A2PC - AFP to PCL transform / A2PS - AFP to PS transform / IPDS - IPDS datastream
User - Userid
Account - Account number
Room - Room number
Programmers - name
CC - Control characters = A - ANSI / M - Machine / T - TRC
Created - File creation date/time
Last used - Date/time when file was last used


Vejamos agora a tela da opcao FA - All Files

Esta opcao mostra todos os Files, imprimindo, ja impressos, esperando impressao, etc. Todas as opcoes validas para a tela Files Awaiting Print sao validas para esta opcao tambem.


Vejamos entao a tela de opcao P - Printers

Digitando P no primeiro painel do CaSpool, a tela das impressoras vai aparecer. Nesta opcao pode-se trabalhar com as impressoras inicializando, purgando, etc. Pode-se ver endereco IP, destino, etc.

Abaixo a primeira tela da opcao de Printers:

Action … Dest . . Q . . Form . Fcb . Status . . Pages Printed
… . . XXXX9999 . A . . STD … 6 . . DRAINED

A coluna ACTION serve de linha de comando para cada impressora em particular. Abaixo estao descritas as opcoes que podem ser usadas nesa coluna, descritas uma a uma e seu significado:

The meaning of the fields are as follows:

Action - Specifies action to be taken. Valid actions are:
BACKSP or B - backspace printer
CANCEL or C - cancel printer
DRAIN or P - stop printer
FILE or Y - display printer and it's ready files
FILEA or X - display printer and all it's files
FORWSP or F - forwardspace printer
HALT or Z - halt printer
I - interrupt printer
MODIFY or M - modify printer attributes
REPEAT or R - repeat printer
RESTART or E - restart printer
START or S - start printer
blank/none - extended display
? - show valid actions

Agora, abaixo estao o significado das outras colunas que aparecem na tela princial da opcao *Printers**:

Dest - Printer name
Q - Output class(es)
Form - Formcode
Fcb - FCB image
A - Automatic selection mode
P - Automatic purge mode
S - Number of separator pages
R - Restricted mode
Pages - Total pages in current printfile
Printed - Printed pages in current printfile
Status - Printer status (See Below List)
ACTIVE - printing
DRAINED - not in session with CA-Spool
DRAINING - session being terminated
EDRAINED - session drained - error status in INFO field
GDDM - the printer is in use by the GDDM subtask
HALTED - halted - will not print unless started again
HALTED(SETUP) - halted because FCB/FORM has changed
HALTING - will halt when current work completes
INACTIVE - in session with CA-Spool, not printing
INTREQ - operator intervention required
QUEUED - waiting for connection with CA-Spool
Lines - Total lines in current printfile
Printed - Printed lines in current printfile
Trans - Translate table
Type - Device type
Info - VTAM sense information
Alias - Alias name of printer
Group - Network group number
Snabuf - SNA-buffer size
Maxdata - Maximum RU-size
Logmode Name of logmode specified on NODE
Userparm - As specified on NODE
NJE Dest - Destination to which files are sent on
Location - As specified on NODE
Transform - Transformer Options
TCP Driver - TCP/IP Print Driver Options
Port - TCP/IP Port Number
TCP/IP - host address - as specified on NODE
TCP/IP - printer name - as specified on NODE



Com estas informacoes ja fica bem facil para um operador ou usuario do sistema trabalhar, superficialmente, com as impressoras.

As outras opcoes do menu principal do CaSpool ficam mais a cargo de quem esta dando suporte ao sistema, no caso de configuracoes de novas impressoras, etc.




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