Printing Mission Management

This section discusses the following topics:

• printing mission workflow
  • printing mission definition
  • preparing the skeleton
• advanced scheduling issues
  • distribution according to scheduling dates
  • report decollating and printing mission dependency
• printer control
  • one‑chunk method
  • multi‑chunk method
  • one‑outgroup method (JES2 only)
  • opening and closing printers
  • printing process
• identifying Control‑D chunks on spool (JES2 only)
• printing on AFP (APA) printers
• printing using XEROX LCD5 (DJDE) parameters
• using OUTPARMS for global control of printing characteristics
• printing to a file
  • tailoring exit CTDX005
• advanced ACIF interface facility
  • Advanced Function Presentation Data Stream (AFPDS)
    and AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility (ACIF)
  • ACIF utility benefits
  • making ACIF accessible to Control‑D
  • activating the advanced ACIF interface