Managing Spool Requests Using the Output Controller (SAP Library

Managing Spool Requests Using the Output Controller

Output Controller: Overview

To manage spool requests, call the Output controller (transaction SP01). If you only want to view the status of your own spool requests, choose System ® Own spool requests.

Using the output controller, you can:

Output spool requests (send them to the host spool, for printing or output on other devices)

Display Details about a spool request and change certain attributes such as destination printer, number of copies, and priority

Display the data to be printed and download the data to a pure ASCII file

Display output requests and track the Status of a job being printed

An output request is generated:

When a spool request is submitted with the attribute Print immediately

Each time a spool request is sent from the output controller to a printer, fax device, or other output device

Delete spool requests

In the output controller, you can delete individual spool requests. Note that deletion does not affect requests that have already been passed by the SAP spool system to the host spool system.

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