Customizing the Print Subsystem (PSS) Component › Managing and Administering Print Services

Managing and Administering Print Services

This section describes how to establish and manage the Print Subsystem (PSS) print environment and how to administer print services. The print environment includes the facilities to process, route, and manage outputs.

Commands for using the print facilities of PSS include commands that:

• Initiate output requests.
• Display the status of an output request.
• Delete an output.
• Display output destinations.
• Browse outputs.
• Perform many of the above functions for other users' outputs.
• Define or alter print destinations.
• Set options for the print environment.
• Define the master or another user's job card.

Output destination definitions are stored in a member in ADROUT that creates an online destination table. When CICS is started, PSS checks for the destination table. If it does not exist, the table is created from the destination definitions stored in ADROUT. To enter destination definitions in the ADROUT member, use the DEFINE OUTPUT DESTINATION command.

Print Service administration commands are listed in the following sections. You can set the print environment site options from a fill-in PSS provides. Access this fill-in by issuing the command SET OUTPUT SITE OPTIONS. The print environment site options and the fill-in that sets them are described in PSS Site Options Fill-in Panel.

You can use the commands that follow to control the disposition, the number of copies, the retention time, and the destination of output.