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EXTERNAL Printing—JES Data Set Interface

To select a SYSOUT group for printing by the external printing product, use the following format to specify a destination (DEST field of a Print Attribute panel).

>printer-id.attributes

where:

>

Signifies that the SYSOUT group is to be printed by an external printing product

printer-id

The 1- to 3-character external print identifier that matches the value set for the corresponding EXTPRTn initialization parameter

attributes

Specifies the replacement values for any of the parameters that were specified as an asterisk in the corresponding EXTPRTn initialization parameter

The values must be specified in the same order as the sub parameters (that is, class, destination, form name, and writer name). If more than one value is supplied, values must be separated by periods.

Example

Assume the following:

• You want to print to an external device using the JES Data Set Interface
• The printer ID is VPS
• The class is V
• The destination is LOCAL
• You want the writer name to be supplied online when the print request is made.

Your system administrator could define the following initialization parameter:

EXTPRT1=VPS/JESDS/V/LOCAL//*

Note: Notice the use of the asterisk in the EXTPRT parameter in the writer position. The asterisk indicates that the writer name is to be supplied online at the time of the print request.

For the online print request, specify the following destination:

DEST ===> >VPS.RMT5

A SYSOUT data set is dynamically created to contain the XPR record. The attributes for the data set correspond to this JCL statement:

//ddname DD SYSOUT=(V,RMT5),DEST=LOCAL