z/VM: CP Commands and Utilities Reference - z/VM - IBM

Responses
finished. For example, you would enter FLUSH if a file was directed to a printer
equipped with the wrong printer train or a file was misdirected to the real punch
rather than to a user’s virtual reader.
2. Special handling is required if a spool file is started on a real output device that
cannot be made ready. If this condition occurs, the operator receives an error
message, recovers the file, and restarts it. To do so, enter flush rdev hold.
3. If the operator has specified HOLD, the file is placed in system hold status. If
not and multiple copies of the file are to be processed, the file is requeued and
started on another device, if one is available.
4. The virtual machine associated with prtid processes the FLUSH command.
Therefore, the options given on the FLUSH command must be valid for the
virtual machine processing it.
Response 1:
PRT rdev FILE FLUSHED userid FILE spoolid RECS nnnn COPY [*]nnn SEQ sss CL c type
PUN FILE HELD nnnK
COPY FLUSHED nnnM
PRT
PUN
identifies the type of device you have flushed.
rdev
identifies the real device number of the printer or punch to be affected.
FILE FLUSHED
FILE HELD
COPY FLUSHED
indicates the disposition for the file.
userid
identifies the user who was to receive the output.
spoolid
identifies the system-assigned number by which CP refers to the file.
RECS nnnn
RECS nnnK
RECS nnnM
identifies the number of logical records in the spool file. If the number is greater
than 9999, the number is shown as nnnK, where K represents the number of
lines in thousands rounded to the nearest 1000 records. If the number is
greater than 999499, then the number is shown as nnnM, where M represents
the number of lines in millions rounded to the nearest million.
COPY nnn
COPY *nnn
specifies the number of file copies you want printed or punched when the file is
produced.
When the optional asterisk (*) is specified, the 3800 printer prints each page
from the spooled output files nnn times before going on to the next page.
If a file is not spooled to the 3800 printer, the function indicated by the asterisk
(*) is ignored and duplication occurs normally.
SEQ sss
identifies the sequence number for the file on the printer or punch.
FLUSH
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