Action Commands

You can use any of the following commands in the Action field:

S or START: Starts the virtual printer.
P or STOP: Stops the virtual printer; currently active work is allowed to complete.
C or CANCEL: Cancels active work and stops the session.
Z or HALT: Halts the session and prevents work from starting.
X: Displays the extended virtual printer panel.

The remaining fields on the panel are described in the following:

VPS name

Name of the virtual printer.

Prt name

Name of the physical printer associated with the virtual printer.

Prt alias

Alias name of the physical printer.

Rc

Contents of R15 and the contents of the ERROR field when the virtual printer was last started (value from OPEN ACB).

Status

Virtual printer status code; the status field displays the virtual printer status code.

Field	Contents	Modify	Sort	Filter	Filter Type
VPS Name	Name of the virtual printer	No	No	Yes	Alphanumeric
Prt Name	Name of the physical printer	No	No	Yes	Alphanumeric
Prt Alias	Alias name of the physical printer	No	No	Yes	Alphanumeric
Sessions	Number of active sessions	No	No	No
Rc	Return code and error code from Open ACB	No	No	No
Status	Status of the virtual printer. The status code consists of two parts. VTAM ACB Status—Valid VTAM ACB status codes are: OPEN—VTAM ACB has been successfully opened \-CLOSE—VTAM ACB has not been opened or has never been opened Session Status—Valid session status codes are: ENABLE—Virtual printer is able to accept sessions DISABLE—Virtual printer is unable to accept sessions. This means that the VTAM ACB has been unsuccessfully opened, or has never been opened. \-REQSESS—Virtual printer is able to accept sessions. A controlling application is defined with which the virtual printer interface tries to keep a session HALTED—Z/HALT command has been issued and all inbound session requests are stopped. Issue started the S/Start command to have all pending session requests rescheduled by VTAM.	No	No	Yes	Alphanumeric