Displaying the Status of Spool and Output Requests
The lists of spool and output requests (transaction SP01) display, among other things, the status of the requests. A request has a status indicating whether data is stored in the SAP spool system, in the host spool system (operating system spooler), or at the printer.
The following status indicators are used to indicate the processing status of a request:
Indicator |
Processing status |
|---|---|
- |
Spool requests has not yet been sent to the host spool system (no output request exists). |
+ |
Spool request is being generated (stored in the SAP spool system) |
Waiting |
The output request is awaiting processing by the SAP spool system and has not yet been sent to the host spool system. |
Waiting in host spooler |
The output request is to be sent or is being sent to the spool work process, or for formatting, in the host spool system. If this status is displayed for a request for an extended period of time (more than one minute), the corresponding spool work process may have terminated, or there may have been a problem establishing a connection to a remote output device. The spool work process automatically reprints the output request affected by the problem. |
In Processing |
The spool work process is formatting the output request for printing. |
Printing |
The request has been passed to the host spooler or to an output device, and a final status has not yet been returned to the SAP spool system. |
Complete |
The output request has been successfully printed. In systems in which the SAP spool system cannot get information from the host spooler, the status becomes |
<F5> |
More than one output request has been generated and the requests have different statuses. The output requests have different statuses or have not yet reached their final processing status. To display the status of individual requests, choose |
Problem |
There is a minor problem; the output request was printed, but probably contains errors.
If the printer character set is incomplete, a missing character is replaced with another (#). End of the example. |
Error |
There is a problem with severe consequences. The requests have not printed and remain in the spool system until they are deleted or until they reach their expiration date and are deleted during a reorganization.
The system cannot find the printer in the network. End of the example. Use the error log to determine the cause of the error. For more information, see Output Log. |
Archive |
(For spool requests sent to an archiving device). The spool request has been processed by the spool system and is waiting to be archived. |
Time or Scheduled |
The user who created the request specified a time when the request is to be output. |
Example
Note
If you want to view a log of the events
of an output request, double-click the status of a request.
For frontend printing output requests, the status of the output request is set to Completed
as soon as the output request has been transmitted to the target PC. The system can only log error messages relating to communication with the PC in the log. Other error messages are lost.
