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Global LPR Considerations

The syntax of the native LPR command varies based on the operating system. The samples in the previous sections are provided as a guideline. Modify the syntax as required according to the platform specific parameters.

Only one file can be transferred to CA Spool's LPD Interface on a single LPR command. If more than one file is transferred from a single LPR command, only the last file is processed.

Zero-byte files are not transferred.

CA Spool's LPD Interface extracts the user ID from the machine that initiated the LPR command. The information is displayed in the USERID column in CA View and CA OM Web Viewer according to the value coded in the xUSERID parameter on the LPDSERV, LPDDEST, or LPDFILE statement.

Consider the following when using certain parameters:

-J

If you do not specify this parameter in the LPR command (-Jjobname), the first eight digits of the default file name are used as the job name when the file is stored in the CA View database. The value is for display purposes only; it is shown in the JOBNAME column for CA View and CA OM Web Viewer.

-C

The "class" parameter is passed to CA View, but it not used by CA View since distributed file types cannot be printed from the z/OS or OS/390 platforms.

-T

The report description that is displayed on the report list in the CA Output Management Web Viewer.

-N

Used to specify the port number. The default port is 515.