Checking the Status of the Spooler (SP-STATUS)

Use the SP-STATUS command when you want to know:

The current status of each Spooler device on the system. This includes whether it is online or offline, active, inactive, or stopped.
The full definition of each printer, including its number, the form queues assigned to it, and the number of blank pages to be ejected between print jobs.
The current status of any active print job. This includes the account and process number from which the job was generated, and the size of the job.

The SP-STATUS command produces a report that looks like the one shown in the following two examples. The report lists the settings and current status of one parallel printer and five serial printers. Printer 0 is the only printer currently printing a job. The job being printed is entry (element) 1 on the Spooler, which was generated from the account JULIE on process 2. The print file takes up 4 frames. All other printers are inactive.

The following display is the first page of a sample SP-STATUS report:

THE SPOOLER IS ACTIVE.

PRINTER #0 IS SERIAL, ON LINE AND ACTIVE. THE PRINTER IS RUNNING ON PROCESS 6. PRINT FILE BEING OUTPUT IS ELEMENT 1, A CLOSED FILE FOR PROCESS #2 GENERATED ON ACCOUNT JULIE, WHICH IS 4 FRAMES LONG.

ASSIGNED OUTPUT QUEUES: 0.

THE NUMBER OF INTER-JOB PAGES TO EJECT IS 0.

PRINTER # 1 IS SERIAL AND INACTIVE.

THE PRINTER IS RUNNING ON PROCESS 8.

ASSIGNED OUTPUT QUEUES: 2.