Group,
We have a lot of large reports in our MVS spool. Any suggestions on limiting
users from printing large reports by their userids, or a way to differentiate
between valid print processing and potentially erroneous print processing by
report name with JES2? A 50,000 page report may be valid if coming from a
production job but may well be in error if generated by a user/programmer.
Somehow there would need to be a reference to valid users (userids), valid
production jobs, valid printers, and number of pages. The pages may not be
correct because the APF information has not been converted.
I contacted the RACF group and it appears there is no option to limit
printing by userid.
I contacted our print software vendor (VPS). I have two choices:
- Dynamically change the print page limit by printer. Not userid specific
and you can print in "sections" which will still get your print printed and not
exceed the limit of printable pages.
- Use Exit 22 where we can trap the userid and requeue the large report
output if it meets specifications. Then an appropriate operator command will
need to be issued to JES to make SYSOUT available for printing again. Sounds
like big overhead.
So, any job can send output to the MVS spool. Maybe I could dedicate a class
or job form for the large reports, but I don't know the best way to do this in
JES2. From what I've seen you can just change the JES2 resources. and away
goes the user/programmer's large report to the wrong printer.
Many thanks in advance, Dave
Dave Hansen
Eagan Software Systems Branch
651-406-1208
[email protected]
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