Preparations in the Backup Site Data Center

• As with the OFFLOAD preparations at your data center, there must be an OFFLOADer prepared at the printing backup site, ready to be used with all relevant OFFLOAD parameters.
• The printer at the printing backup site usually needs to be dedicated to the bundles. To achieve this, the same guidelines used to transmit only Control-D bundles to the OFFLOAD facility at your site can be used in order to print only your particular bundles at the backup site printer.
  • If not using the chunking mechanism, that is, if CHUNKSIZE is set to 0, the Control-D Printing monitor name (that is, CTDPRINT) must be specified as the job name the printer selects from spool. The following command demonstrates how this may be specified to the printer:

    $TPRTx,JOB=CTDPRINT,WS=(JOB)

    Note that the WS (Work Selection Criteria) parameter must also be updated. The x must be replaced with the printer identification number.

  • If using the chunking mechanism (that is, CHUNKSIZE greater than one), the logical printer destination (for example, U1001, as specified in CTDPARM) must be used as the destination selection criteria. The following command demonstrates how this may be specified to the printer:

    $TPRTx,R=U1001,WS=(R)

  Note that the WS (Work Selection Criteria) parameter must also be updated. The x must be replaced with the printer identification number.

• Prepare a PSF procedure that has your AFP external resource libraries concatenated.
• Note that the printing backup site does not have to have Control-D installed. At the printing backup site, the printing process is totally independent of Control-D and uses JES facilities only.