
Status of Output Requests
You can display:
These displays provide more details about the status of output requests than are available in the spool request display. The system displays one of the following statuses for requests for which this information is available:
Waiting |
The output request is waiting for or is being processed by a spool work process or spool. If this status is displayed for a request for an extended period of time (more than one minute), then the spool work process that is responsible for the request may have terminated, or there may be a problem establishing a connection to a remote output device. The spool work process automatically reprints the output request affected by the problem. |
Proc. (processing) |
Print data is being processed by the SAP spool work process or by the host spool. |
Print. (printing) |
The request has been passed to the host spool or to an output device and a final status has not yet been returned to the spool system. |
Compl. (completed) |
In host systems which the SAP spool system can query, this means that the request has been successfully printed, as reported to the SAP spool system by the host system or by the output device. If the spool system cannot obtain status information from the host system, then the status of a output request is set to Compl. as soon as the request has been passed to the host spool. |
Problem |
A minor error occurred while printing the request. |
Error |
A severe error occurred. The output request could not be printed. Use the error log to determine the cause of the error. For more information, see Reading an Error Log . |
Scheduled (+ Start time) |
The user who created the request has set a start time for printing the request |

If you want to view a log of the events of an output request, double-click the status of a request.
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