Enabling and Disabling Spooling

Use the NMS command SPOOLER with the parameter OPENQ and the NMS command SPOOLER with the parameter SHUTQ or the commands OPENQ and SHUTQ. [DEV=] devname and ;SHOW are parameters for OPENQ and SHUTQ. Devname is the device name of the spoolable device and is configured with the SYSGEN utility.

These commands enable and disable spooling and spool queues for a specified device, device name, or all devices belonging to a device class.

To shut the spool queue for device name LDEV6, enter:

   SHUTQ LDEV6

or

   SPOOLER LDEV6;SHUTQ

To open the queue for logical device 6 and to show the state of the queue and other information about logical device 6, enter:

   OPENQ 6;SHOW

or

   SPOOLER 6;OPENQ;SHOW

SHUTQ @ disables all spooling queues that are currently open and inhibits the creation of any output spool files.

OPENQ @ opens all spooling queues that were open at the time of the last SHUTQ @ or that have been opened since then and have not been shut. It does not open all queues on the system. You can think of OPENQ @ as a global enabling of all device queues that are already open.

Suppose OPENQ @ is in effect (the default at boot time). Consider the following sequence:

OPENQ 6    (Spools data to LDEV 6.)

OPENQ 11   (Spools data to LDEV 11.)

SHUTQ @    (Cannot spool data to any device)

OPENQ 19   (Still cannot spool data to any device)

SHUTQ 11   (Still cannot spool data to any device)

OPENQ @    (Spools data to LDEVs 6 and 19 but not 

                   LDEV 11 since LDEV 11's spool queue was

                   shut with the previous command)