Q:
ABSTRACT: In PSF for AIX, how do I get collated copies from differ
ent bins?
SEARCH ARG: psf/6000 copies
TOPIC THREAD: PRINT
AFP
PSF6000
..
My customer is printing checks on a 3935 attached to PSF for
AIX (i.e. v2). He also wants to print a copy of the checks using
paper from a second bin. He currently has the job setup with
a formdef which has a subgroup specifying bin 2 to get him his
copies. This give him copies integrated with the originals, that is
check, copy, check, copy etc. He wants to change this to print all
checks from bin 1 and then all copies from bin 2. In MVS I would use
2 output statements with different formdefs, each formdef would have
a different bin specified. How do I do this in PSF for AIX?
A:
On MVS, the use of two OUTPUT statements causes the job to be submitted
for printing twice; you don't really see this, but that's what's
happening according to the developers I asked.
On PSF/6000 (PSF for AIX), in order to get the same results (e.g., two
different sets of output, each using a different formdef), the job will
also have to be submitted twice calling for the different formdefs.
There's no facility in PSF for AIX to do that for you "under the
covers". However, it might be possible to develop a custom shell script
to do this for you. We would need more information from you before
giving you a specific answer, such as "Is a transform involved (such as
acif/line2afp) and how is invoked (smit? enq -odatatype=line? acif with
a pipe to enq?)". My thinking would be to transform the data only once,
but then enq it twice with a different formdef or bin statement. Thus
one approach would be to write a shell script that invokes the transform
(assuming one is involved) to produce an AFPDS file, and then issues
two enq statements against that file, then finally erases the file
once the jobs have printed successfully.
If you wish to pursue a custom shell script or backend program, please
contact the PSC services organization.
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S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:
AIX PSF/6000 PSF FOR AIX COLLATED COPIES FORMDEF BIN psf/aix mvs
output formdef
WWQA: ITEM: RTA000089850 ITEM: RTA000089850
Dated: 05/1999 Category: XPSF6000
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