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Setting Up and Maintaining Queues
14.3 Planning Your Queue Setup
Step Task
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3 If you plan to use any queue options, such as forms,
characteristics, and banner pages, determine the qualifiers
needed to specify those options. In addition, define any forms and
characteristics you will use before you create queues. (Because
of the length of the instructions for this step, the corresponding
section in the manual follows the section for step 5.)
Section 14.6
4 Create and start queues. Section 14.4
5 Create a command procedure to perform the necessary setup tasks
each time your system reboots.
Section 14.5
14.3.1 Setting Up Output Devices
Before creating output queues, you must set up the devices to which the queues
will direct output.
How to Perform This Task
1. Install any printers, plotters, and other output devices to which your users
will have access. For information, refer to the documentation provided with
the hardware.
2. If you will use LAT printers, create logical LAT ports. You must create
a logical LAT port on each service node to which a LAT printer is to be
available, and associate the logical port with a physical port or service on
the terminal server node. To do so, use the LATCP commands CREATE
PORT and SET PORT. For more information, refer to the OpenVMS System
Management Utilities Reference Manual.
3. Set device characteristics for line printers and printers attached to terminal
ports. To do so, use a series of SET commands. For more information, see
Section 8.8.1. In step 5, you create a command procedure to set up your
devices each time the system reboots. The commands you enter to set device
characteristics must be included in this command procedure.
4. Spool printers. If you use LAT printers, or if you run applications that write
output directly to a printer, spool your printers. For more information about
spooled printers, see Section 14.2.2.7.
To spool a printer, use the SET DEVICE/SPOOLED command, as explained
in Section 8.8.2.1.
5. Create a command procedure to set up your device characteristics and spool
printers each time the system reboots. You must include the commands you
entered in steps 3 and 4 in the command procedure. (Include the commands
you entered to set up logical ports in step 2 in your site-specific LAT startup
command procedure SYS$MANAGER:LAT$SYSTARTUP.COM.)
If your configuration is simple, you can add the commands to SYSTARTUP_
VMS.COM. If your configuration requires a large number of commands, create
a separate command procedure (for example, DEVICE_SETUP.COM), and
execute it from SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM. In the command procedure, a SET
TERMINAL command must precede a SET DEVICE/SPOOLED command for
the same output device.
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