IBM AS/400E How Authority for Putting Spooled Files on Output Queue is Determined

must have the OPRCTL parameter set to *YES. This means that anyone with

*JOBCTL authority,like LPD, can access the OUTQ.

– If the output queue name does not contain a library name, the *LIBL library is

searched.

– If the speciﬁed output queue cannot be found, the spooled ﬁle is sent to the

output queue QPRINT in the library QGPL.

vIf the speciﬁed user does not exist on the destination AS/400 system, the

*PUBLIC access authority for the user QTMPLPD is checked. The *LIBL library

associated with the proﬁle QTMPLPD is searched for the requested output

queue.

– If the authority is not *EXCLUDE, the

command is

checked for the name of the requested output queue.

– If the output queue is found, the ﬁle is sent to that output queue, provided the

user proﬁle QTMPLPD has access to that output queue or the OUTQ has the

OPRCTL parameter set to *YES. This means that anyone with *JOBCTL

authority, like LPD, can access the OUTQ.

– If the speciﬁed output queue cannot be found, the spooled ﬁle is sent to the

output queue QPRINT in the library QGPL.

In all of the previous situations, the ﬁle is considered successfully sent and

received.

If the QTMPLPD proﬁle has public access set to *EXCLUDE, access to the output

queue is denied, and the ﬁle is rejected by the AS/400 destination system. The

error message is sent to the message queue for the QTMPLPD default user proﬁle.

Important!:

There is no process to notify the requesting system that an authority

error was detected because the TCP connection is usually closed by

the time this is determined. Any success messages posted by the LPR

client application mean the ﬁle was temporarily received but not

necessarily kept. Do not delete any ﬁles until you have veriﬁed that

you have proper authority and that your ﬁles were received

successfully on the destination system.

How Authority for Putting Spooled Files on Output Queue isDetermined

When LPD creates spooled ﬁles, it checks to ensure that the requester has the

proper authority to place spooled ﬁles on the output queue. It checks to ensure that

the following are true:

1. The user has *READ authority to the output queue.

2. The user has *SPLCTL special authority.

3. The user has *JOBCTL special authority.

4. The output queue is OPRCTL(*YES).

If any of these conditions are true, then the user has authority to place the ﬁle on

the requested output queue. If none of these conditions are true, the ﬁle goes to the

default output queue QPRINT in library QGPL.

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