SP-JOBS

Manipulates and displays status of print jobs.

COMMAND SYNTAX

SP-JOBS

NOTES

The SP-JOBS screen displays a list of print jobs together with their status and formqueue assignment. At the bottom of the screen 14 action codes are displayed. Each action code, except code 99, corresponds to a jBASE command that performs the same function.

Note: The SP-JOBS command displays only the print jobs associated with the jBASE spooler. The command does not display information about the UNIX spooler.

SELECTING A MENU OPTION

To select a menu option enter the appropriate option number at the prompt.

For example, to move print jobs from one formqueue to another, enter "1" at the prompt:

Action Code / Options (P#; PT#; A acctname; Q queuename; S status) : 1

The selected option will prompt for the necessary parameters to enable command execution. In this case, the prompt is:

FROM-FORM-QUEUE TO-FORM-QUEUE:

Enter the formqueue to move print jobs from, a space, and the formqueue to move the print jobs to. You will be prompted for any missing parameters.

SELECTING A DISPLAY PAGE

The SP-JOBS display may contain more than one page of print job information. The number of pages available and the current page number are displayed in the top right hand corner of the screen. To display the next page enter RETURN. To skip to a specific page, enter P followed by the page number.

DISPLAY PRINT JOBS FOR A SPECIFIC PORT NUMBER

Print jobs can be filtered to display only those jobs generated from a specific port number. At the Action Code / Options prompt, enter PT followed by a port number. For example,

Action Code / Options (P#; PT#; A acctname; Q queuename; S status) : PT 42

will display the first page of print jobs generated from port 42.

DISPLAY PRINT JOBS FOR A SPECIFIC FORMQUEUE

Print jobs can be filtered to display only those jobs belonging to a specific form queue. At the Action Code / Options prompt, enter Q followed by a the name of a formqueue. For example,

Action Code / Options (P#; PT#; A acctname; Q queuename; S status) : Q INVOICES

will display the first page of print jobs belonging to the INVOICES form queue.

DISPLAY PRINT JOBS FOR A SPECIFIC STATUS

Print jobs can be filtered to display only those jobs with a specific STATUS. At the Action Code / Options prompt, enter S followed by a status of either QUEUED, PRINT, FINISH, OPEN, HOLD, KILLED or EDIT. For example,

Action Code / Options (P#; PT#; A acctname; Q queuename; S status) : S FINISH

will display the first page of print jobs whose current status is FINISH indicating all jobs which have been completely despooled.

EXECUTING AN EQUIVALENT JBASE COMMAND

Equivalent jBASE commands can be executed by entering the command at the shell prompt. For example, to move print jobs enter:

SP-MOVEQ formqueue formqueue

You will be prompted for any missing parameters.

EXITING THE SP-JOBS MENU

To exit the SP-JOBS menu select option 99.

SP-JOBS SCREEN DISPLAY

The screen display contains the following fields:

JOB	print job number
QUEUE	the formqueue to where the print job is queued
LINE	the jBASE port number of the process which generated the print job
ACCOUNT	the jBASE logname of the process which generated the print job
CREATED	the date and time the print job was generated
STATUS	the current status of the print job
ALIGN	despooling is waiting for alignment
EDITn	the print job is being edited by SP -EDIT. n is the editing port
FINISHED	the print job has been despooled and the H option is assigned
HOLD	the print job has not been despooled and the H option is assigned
KILLED	despooling has been killed
OPEN	the print job is being created
PRINT	the print job is being despooled
QUEUED	the print job is queued waiting to be despooled
STOPPED	despooling has been stopped
SUSPENDED	despooling has been suspended
SIZE	the size of the print job expressed in 1k blocks
PRNTD	the amount of the print job despooled expressed in 1k blocks
OP	the options assigned to the print job
CP	the number of copies to be despooled

Spooler