SAP Basis

Unit 10: Including Printers in SAP Systems ADM100
Solution 22: Managing Spool Requests
Task
1. Display a spool request.
a) Choose System → Services → Output Control (transaction SP01).
Restrict the output to your spool requests from today (thisisthe
default selection). Your spool request should have status “-”.
2. Create an output request for the spool request.
a) Choose the Print directly button.
3. Check the status of your output request.
a) Refresh the list of spool requests. Does the status change to
complete? If not, double click the Status field and analyze the log.
4. (Optional) Display the generated print data. Instead of checking at
operating system level, you can view the file from the SAP system
using transaction AL11 (SAP directory C_TEMP).
a) Both solutions are described here:
• At operating system level, you can use, for example,
Notepad (Start → Run, and then enter notepad) todisplay
the file C:\temp\Print1.prn or C:\temp\Print2.prn. Note
that Notepad cannot display all printer-specific control
characters.
• In the SAP system, call transaction AL11 and double click
the entry C_TEMP at the end of the list. Double click the file
name (Printfile1 or Printfile2) displays the file contents.
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