Chapter 2 Spooler and Spool File Management Tasks

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Managing the spooler

Starting a spooler

Stopping a spooler

Suspending a spooler

Resuming a spooler

Releasing a suspended spool file

Displaying spooler process status

Opening the spool queues

Shutting the spool queues

Controlling printer access

Controlling the printing of headers and trailers

Reprinting spool files

Printing an unlinked spool file

Printing on special forms

Viewing Data About Spool Files

Viewing specific spool files

Viewing multiple spool files

Using wildcards to specify spool files

Viewing spool file subsets

Displaying summary data about spool files

Displaying detailed data about spool files

Spool file identification after a system reboot

Viewing spool file data with LISTFILE

Managing Spool Files

Altering spool files

Printing spool files

Deleting spool files

Transferring spool files between systems

Storing spool files

Restoring spool files

Using the SPFXFER utility

Spool File Recovery At System Startup

Recovery process improvements

Spooler behavior during recovery

Waking an idle spooler process

Issuing spool file management commands

When recovery is complete

Managing the HPSPOOL Account

Controlling spool file disk allocation

File space limits

Purging spool files from the IN and OUT groups

Purging checkpoint files

File security

The OUT.HPSPOOL group

The IN.HPSPOOL group

The device name groups

• spooler management tasks including starting, stopping, suspending and resuming a spooler, opening and shutting spool queues, and controlling user access to a spooled device.

• controlling the printing of report headers and trailers.

• printing on special forms.

• displaying information about specific spool files, a group of spool files, and a selected subset of spool files.

• altering a spool file, which includes changing its output device, priority, the number of copies and its deferred status, and how to print and delete spool files.

• transferring spool files between native mode systems using the STORE and RESTORE commands, and between compatibility mode and native mode systems using the SPFXFER utility.

• a discussion of spool file recovery at system startup.