z/OS USS–UNIX System Services Printing Commands › lpstat—Show printer and print job status › Description

Description

lpstat writes CA Spool printer queue and print job status information to standard output.

For each printer queues the lpstat command return CA Spool ESF831 message containing the following information:

• Printer device type, name, actual status and network group number.
• Current form, FCB and output classes.
• Current number of lines/pages printed of total number of lines/pages if file active on printer.

For each print job the lpstat command returns the CA Spool ESF839 message containing the following information:

• File number, file name, file destination, output class, form, FCB, lines, priority and current file status.

When lpstat returns information about multiple jobs, the order is not significant. The first job listed might not be the next job to print.