NPRO=5 means that 5 seconds after the last print job the printer will 'run out' the report to the output stacker. What you have to watch out for is that a print comes out.... 5 seconds later the printer runs it to the output stacker... then 10 seconds later another job prints.... then 5 seconds later the printer runs it out to the output stacker... this can happen over and over. If no one watching for a period of time a lot of paper can be wasted. We had our set to NPRO=300 (5 minutes) and the operators were complaining that it was wasting too much paper. Our operators had us turn it off and they do it manually when they want to get a listing that is in the printer. YMMV.
Thanks...Guy M. Gates Jr. TTI Z/OS Systems Programmer II -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 2:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: What is the purpose of NPRO on JES2 Printers Non Process Run Out (or some such) Used to be used for the big continuous forms printers (like 3800) to force the last job printed to 'run out' to the stacker when there wasn't any other work to be printed. I don't believe it means anything to a cut sheet printer. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 3:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IBM-MAIN] What is the purpose of NPRO on JES2 Printers It has been awhile since I worked with JES2 Printers (in this case INFO Print) The NPRO comes up as NPRO=0. My operators want it set to NPRO=5. Are there any good rules of thumb as to what number this might be? Thanks Lizette ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
