From my personal experience (dating back to 1977-1980), both the SYSOUT-related sub-parameters CLASS and FORM (possibly also WRITER-program, and often DEST) provided a "gate" so that a queued-SYSOUT could be directed to a printer that was configured / set to the appropriate data-values via JES commands -- and then the gate opened for sending the output. And so also there were one or more printers set to process some class / form STD combination, for the "nothing special" condition printing.
And these days, additional parameters are used to influence how a print-subsystem is to process "image" content, possibly to superimpose a form or overlay (my lame interpretation -- sorry !!) Scott Barry SBBTech LLC On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:44:19 +0000, Frank Swarbrick <frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> wrote: >It's been quite a few years since we had mainframe attached printers, and I'm >trying to recall what the FORMS SYSOUT parameter is used for. If I recall >correctly, if a job going to a printer had a SYSOUT FORMS value that was >different than the last job that was printed on that printer, the operator >would be notified, they would change the forms for that printer to the correct >one and then respond to the prompt. Is that correct? And does the FORMS >value have any specific meaning? Or is it up to the shop to know which FORMS >value is for which physical form type? More specifically, the FORMS value >just a "free form" string of characters, or is it "configured" somewhere? > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
