Hi Dave,
I know that you have the LRS products and some JES2 printing. What kind(s) of Jes2 printing (PSF, InfoPrint, line print) do you do? VPS printers can have limits set. In my shop there is a global limit set on print size in the VPS default member, then some printers have different limits (larger or smaller) coded within each printer member. And some printers have multiple names and definitions, so that other options can easily be managed. Printers with multiple names and VPS members all print to the same final print queue if they are destined for the same physical printer. That last part is done with a second VPS stc. Very easy to set up. JES2 printers can be limited to specific queue, line and or page limit, form, etc. In my shop, different output classes get different handling. There is a class for production line print on an impact printer. A separate clas s for production laser print - we use PSF . The are several output classes for programmer output. No programmer output is printed until the programmer checks it and sends to a printable class. At the end of the day, a JES offload picks up the programmer output, writes it to tape, deletes the output from JES2, and immediately reloads everything that was in class M or T to JES2 in class H. Everything that was originally in class H is not reloaded, but moved to the online viewer. We used to print a lot, but now most use the online viewer and print only selected pages from it. HTH, Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave L - Eagan Hansen, MN" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 2:29:29 PM Subject: Printing limits and userids Group, We have a lot of large reports in our MVS spool. Any suggestions on limiting users from printing large reports by their userids, or a way to differentiate between valid print processing and potentially erroneous print processing by report name with JES2? A 50,000 page report may be valid if coming from a production job but may well be in error if generated by a user/programmer. Somehow there would need to be a reference to valid users (userids), valid production jobs, valid printers, and number of pages. The pages may not be correct because the APF information has not been converted. I contacted the RACF group and it appears there is no option to limit printing by userid. I contacted our print software vendor (VPS). I have two choices: - Dynamically change the print page limit by printer. Not userid specific and you can print in "sections" which will still get your print printed and not exceed the limit of printable pages. - Use Exit 22 where we can trap the userid and requeue the large report output if it meets specifications. Then an appropriate operator command will need to be issued to JES to make SYSOUT available for printing again. Sounds like big overhead. So, any job can send output to the MVS spool. Maybe I could dedicate a class or job form for the large reports, but I don't know the best way to do this in JES2. From what I've seen you can just change the JES2 resources. and away goes the user/programmer's large report to the wrong printer. Many thanks in advance, Dave Dave Hansen Eagan Software Systems Branch 651-406-1208 [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
