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Example

For example, a user activates a session named CICSPROD from the virtual terminal TPXGR008. The user then issues a print request by pressing the CICS print key. CICS locates the virtual terminal TPXGR008 in a CICS TCT entry such as the following:

DEFINE  NETNAME(TPXGR008)
        DEVICE(LUTYPE2) 
        PRINTER(TPXPR008)
        .
        .
        .

The virtual printer TPXPR008 is assigned to the virtual terminal TPXGR008, and is also defined to the software as a virtual printer in VTAMLST. The software locates virtual printer TPXPR008 in the passthrough print table and finds the following:

Virtual Printer Mask: TPXPR***
Virtual Terminal Mask: TPXGR***

The asterisks tell the software to replace the asterisks with the characters from the virtual printer ID to which the request was sent. So the software determines that a print request sent to virtual printer TPXPR008 was issued by the virtual terminal TPXGR008. It then determines the user ID of the user who is accessing virtual terminal TPXGR008 and sends the request to the user's default printer.