OUTFENCE

and consist of eigh t or fewer alphanumeric characters. If you enter an alphanumeric character string, the command searc hes the device class list ￿rst, then the device name list. The device class name and device name cannot be the same.

Operation Notes

Usage

You can enter this command from a session, a job, a program, or in break mode. Pressing 4Break5 does not a￿ect this command.

You must enter this command from the console unless y our system administrator has used the ALLOW command, which permits you to enter this command.

Altering print priorities

You can prevent all spool ￿les from prin ting by setting the outfence to 14. You can prevent a subset of spool ￿les from prin ting by setting the outfence higher than the outputpriority of any spool ￿le in the group.

You can alter the printing priorit y of a single ￿le without a￿ecting the en tire system by changing the output priority of the speci￿c spool ￿le(s) using the ALTSPOOLFILE or SPOOLF command.

Examples

To temporarily defer all output spool ￿les except those w aiting to be prin ted by LDEV 6, which is usually con￿gured as the system line prin ter, do the following:

1. Set the global outfence to 14 and the outfence of LDEV 6 to 7, as sho wn:

:OUTFENCE 14

:OUTFENCE 7;LDEV=6

This device-speci￿c outfence tak es precedence over the global outfence.

2.Display the new global outputpriority and the outputpriority of logical device 6 by entering the LISTSPF or SHOWOUT command, as sho wn:

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