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Print Services Manager

Print Services Manager (PSM) lets you control the physical printing of the reports your organization generates on JES or network printers. Output can be viewed online before or after printing and can be redirected to another destination.

PSM provides the following facilities:

• Print-spooling

  Writes output to a print spool providing more control over output. This lets you redirect output to another printer if one is not available.

• Centralized Printer Definition Facilities

  Supports VTAM (LU1) and JES (SYSOUT) devices and lets you assign printer aliases. It also allows the output destination to be a printer exit.

• Print Request Control

  Lets you hold, release, browse and delete print requests, redirect print requests to another printer, change priorities and numbers of copies, and display the status of requests.

Notes: 

• This chapter describes how to use PSM. For information about defining and maintaining printers, see the Administration Guide.
• References to JES in this chapter also apply to VOS3's JES3 and JES4 subsystems.