The Print Subsystem Recovery

Print Subsystem (PSS) recovery consists of the two main steps. PSS recovery occurs during CICS startup.

The automatic deletion of expired outputs from the ADROUT library. Expired outputs are outputs whose retention period has expired. During CICS startup, all outputs older than the value specified in the MAXIMUM RETENTION PERIOD field (displayed with SET OUTPUT SITE OPTIONS) of the PSS options block are automatically deleted.
The re-starting of unfinished network prints. This step is executed for network printers only and is done only during CICS startup. This step finishes print tasks that were not completed during the previous run of CICS because either CICS was closing down or the printer was not ready. When the ADROUT library is shared between several CICS regions, the CICS system ID (specified in SIT as the SYSIDNT parameter) determines if the printout should be restarted on the current region.