Opening and Closing Printers

During installation, a value of OPEN or CLOSE is assigned to parameter PRINTER for each printer. If installation parameter PRINTER is set to OPEN for a printer, it is not necessary to "open" that printer unless it has been "closed" by an operator command.

• To display the entire list of open printers, issue operator command

  F CONTROLD,STARTPRT

  If a required printer was defined as CLOSE, issue the following operator command to "open" it:

  F CONTROLD,STARTPRT,printername

  where printername is the name assigned to the printer during Control‑D installation.

  The following message is displayed on the operator console from which the operator command was issued:

  CTD130I COMMAND "STARTPRT" ACCEPTED FOR PRINTER printername

• To "close" a Control‑D printer, issue operator command

  F CONTROLD,STOPPRT,printername

  When there are no Control‑D bundles to print, you can reset the printer’s original parameters with a JES command.

It is not necessary to "close" Control‑D printers. A printer remains "open" but nothing is printed if the JES2‑DEST or JES3‑CLASS setting of the printer is not assigned to Control‑D.