There are several setup parameters, and there ae command to control how the JES deals with them. There is also a difference in the handling of physical forms versus forms overlays. Which JES, which printer and which selection criteria are you
thinking of? In general, the names of e.g., forms, UCS, are arbitrary, but IBM ships some predefined members. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Frank Swarbrick [frank.swarbr...@outlook.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 2:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SYSOUT FORMS question 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
