Retrieving an Output Device from a Target System

When you create a PAL Printer you can use both output devices from the central system and from one or more Target Systems. Below is a description of how to retrieve output devices from Target Systems for usage in PAL.

Defining an output device, located in the Central System, as a PAL Printer, simply marks this output device as a PAL Printer. When defining a PAL Printer based on an output device located in a Target System, this output device will be automatically installed in the Central System and then marked as a PAL Printer. Thus a new output device is created in the Central System which you can maintain in transaction SPAD. This may cause collisions with already existing output devices in the Central System (see table below).

Procedure

In section Show, select Printer, and then click Create.

If the output device is defined in a Target System, select Target System and choose a Target System from the F4 help, or enter the system name directly.

If you select a name from the F4 help, we recommend that you enter the system name, not the SID or the RFC destination.

Choose Next. The dialog screen Create PAL Printers appears, listing all output devices that are available in the Target System.

Note Note

This list does not contain output devices which:

use access methods that are not supported by PAL
are already defined as PAL Printers in the Target System

End of the note.

You can select the required output devices directly from the list or use the filter function to search for specific output devices. To choose more than one output device, press SHIFT and click on the output devices in the list. Choose Next.

Afterwards, the selected output devices are displayed in the next dialog together with their current test status.

If an output device with the same long name or short name already exists in the Central System, this output device will be displayed with a warning.

Test Status	Description	More Information
(OK)	Output device can be installed	Output device can be defined as a PAL Printer.
(Warning)	Output device ‘XX’ exists in the central system but it can be overwritten.	Collision. An output device with an identical long name or short name already exists in the Central System but it is not defined as a PAL Printer. The output device can be overwritten.
(Error)	Printer ‘XX’ already exists in the central system as a PAL printer	An output device with an identical name already exists in the Central System as a PAL Printer. This printer definition cannot be overwritten.

Select output devices that are displayed with test status (OK), and click Finish. Confirm the following message with Yes. If the PAL Printer definition was successful, the selected output devices are displayed with status Success in a list.

Collision

If you select an output device that is displayed with and set the Overwrite flag, the new PAL Printer will overwrite the original output device in the Central System.

You will receive the following warning that you are going to overwrite existing printer definitions:

You have specified to overwrite Output Device(s) in Central System. Do you want to proceed?

Caution Caution

There may be up to two different output devices in the Central System that will be overwritten; one with an identical long name and one with an identical short name. Check carefully because you cannot undo overwritten printer definitions.

End of the caution.

When you are sure that you want to overwrite the output device(s), confirm the warning with Yes and click Close.