Procedure documentationSelecting and Displaying Spool and Output Requests

 

On the initial screen of the Output Controller (transaction SP01), you can specify selection criteria on the Spool Requests and Output Requests tab pages for displaying spool or output requests.

In the screenshot below, the user is searching in system BCE, client 200 for spool requests with the creation date 09.12.2002.

Choose Execute to display an overview of the spool or output requests that match the selection criteria.

Procedure

  1. Call the output controller (transaction SP01).

  2. Choose the tab page Spool Requests or Output Requests.

  3. Select the requests by entering any combination of criteria, as shown in the figure above.

    For more information, such as how to enter value ranges or exclude specific values from the selection, see Entering Selection Criteria.

  4. Choose Execute to display an overview of the spool or output requests that match the selection criteria.

  5. Optional: Optional: If you want to change the display of the selection fields that appear on the Spool Requests and Output Requests tab pages of the initial screen of transaction SP01, choose Further Selection Criteria.

    This screen appears:

You can choose between the following basic settings:

  • Minimum

  • Standard

  • Extended

  • All

  • User-defined

If you choose User-Defined, you make your own selection.

Note Note

Users with administration authorizations are offered more selection fields than users who are only authorized to change their own requests.

End of the note.

Result

The List of Spool Requests or the List of Output Requests shows the requests that match your selection criteria.

Example

You want to display all spool requests created between 01.01.2002 and 01.02.2002 for the output device PRINTER1.

  1. On the Spool Request selection screen, enter the date range in the Date Created field and the name of the output device in the Output Device field.

  2. Then choose Execute.