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Data Set Print Driver

Use this print driver to automatically copy CA Spool print files, including PDF, HTML, and RTF wrapped text files, into MVS data sets or USS HFS files for further processing. The stored print files are, by default, exact copies of the CA Spool print files. It stores text reports in EBCDIC without translation and with preservation of carriage control information.

You can use print driver option D together with one of the existing print drivers to have the complete output data-stream written to an MVS data set or a USS HFS file. By default, data is formatted and translated to ASCII and PCL/PJL or you can include the binary printer commands on the stored output file to print as a binary file.

You can have the output written to an existing sequential/partitioned MVS data set or USS HFS file, automatically allocated to a new data set or HFS file, or appended to an existing data set or file. GDG data sets are supported. The MEMBER parameter specifies the relative GDG number to use. SMS support is included.

You can specify data set and file disposition, and JCL allocation attributes:

You can specify the above using JCL or have it be automatically assigned using CA Spool DESTID definitions.

Note: TCPHOST parameter is processed first, DRIVPRM1-4 parameters second and OUTPUT ADDRESS parameter is processed third.

If you specify the data set parameter more than once, then the last specification is used.

If the TCPHOST parameter is not used to specify data set parameters, then you must specify a dummy TCPHOST parameter to use the data set print driver.

You can automatically generate unique identifying names; that is, you can specify that output data set names, member names, and HFS file names be synthesized from userid, destination, file name, file number, date, time, job number, job name, job class, job step, proc step, DD name, and fixed text.