Technical data

Setting Up and Maintaining Queues
14.7 Maintaining Queues
Qualifier Description
/BACKWARD[=n] Restarts a print queue n pages before the current page; n
defaults to 1. If you omit the value, printing resumes at the
top of the current page.
/FORWARD[=n] Advances the specified number of pages before resuming
printing the current file in the current job; the default is 1.
If you omit the page value, printing resumes at the top of the
next page.
/SEARCH="search-string" Specifies that printing is to resume at the page containing
the specified string. The search for the string moves forward,
beginning on the page following the current page. During the
search, consecutive tabs and spaces are treated as a single
space, and character case is ignored. The string can be from
1 to 63 characters and must be enclosed in quotation marks
(" ").
/TOP_OF_FILE Resumes printing at the beginning of the file that was
current when the output execution queue paused.
When you must use more than one positioning qualifier with the same
START/QUEUE command, file positioning is performed in the following order:
1. /TOP_OF_FILE
2. /FORWARD
3. /BACKWARD
4. /SEARCH
Examples
1. In the following example, STOP/QUEUE suspends the job that is currently
printing on the printer queue JADE_PRINT and places that queue in the
paused state. The START/QUEUE command releases the queue from the
paused state. The /TOP_OF_FILE qualifier causes the job that was suspended
to resume printing at the beginning of the file rather than at where it was
interrupted.
$ STOP/QUEUE JADE_PRINT
$ START/QUEUE/TOP_OF_FILE JADE_PRINT
2. In the following example, START/QUEUE resumes output on printer SYS_
LPA0 after advancing 15 pages from the beginning of the file:
$ START/QUEUE/TOP_OF_FILE/FORWARD=15 SYS_LPA0
14.7.2.7.2 Aligning Print Forms To print alignment data to aid in aligning
printer forms, pause the queue, then enter START/QUEUE with the /ALIGN
qualifier in the following format:
START/QUEUE/ALIGN[=(option[,...])]
The following options control the number of alignment pages and type of
alignment data:
Setting Up and Maintaining Queues 14–69