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G eneral Description of OSC (Output Schedule Control) ® Output Schedule Control (OSC) is a sub-system in InterForm400 which main purpose is to optimize the daily mail procedures in an organisation and thereby reduce the postage costs significantly. The key element with this function is that rather then sending 10 envelopes to the same customer, all documents should be sent together. OSC will handle multiple spool files, independently of document type and produce a new single spool file in *SCS format, sorted e.g. according to the recipient name. OSC jobs works differently than Auto Forms Control jobs. OSC jobs are not running at all times. OSC jobs wake up at specific times of the week and will merge all spool files waiting at a specific output queue into one large SCS spool file. This new spool file can be sorted and distributed and then merged using Auto Forms Control. When all waiting spool files have been handled, the OSC job goes into ‘sleep mode’ again, and awaits the next ‘wake up call’. Output Schedule Control can help you print out in these situations: 1. You have large spool files to print. It is not necessary to print them out immediately after they are created. You want to (automatically) print them out during the night, when the printers are idle. 2. You are going to print out very large spool files and you want to automatically distribute the workload on several printers. 3. You have 2 or more spool files, that are to be distributed to the same customers. For easy and low cost distribution, you want to merge all the spool files to one and sort it, so pages for the same customer are collected and printed together. 4. You have the situation as described in example 3, but the customer information is placed on differently on the page depending on the type of spool file. 5. You want to use the solution described in example 3, but you are sending out letters to customers, and these letters have only customer information on the first page for each customer. The setup of the primary functions of Output Schedule Control is managed by selecting menu option 6. from the main menu. The same menu can be entered directly by the program call: 272 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® CALL APF3812/OSCADM The menu appears like this:
InterForm 400 - Output Schedule Control System.......: INTER02 Workstn ID...: IF400_PDC2 Select one of the following options: User ID......: POULD 1. Functions attached to Output Queues 10. Start OSCCTL subsystem / server 11. End OSCCTL subsystem and server 12. Work with OSCCTL subsystem Option: __ F3=Exit F6=Display messages F12=Cancel Notice, that as default the name for the related subsystem is OSCCTL and placed in the APF3812 library. This can be changed in the configuration option. If you change the subsystem name and/or the library, the commands below should of course reflect this change. 10. Start OSCCTL subsystem Output Schedule Control is running as an ordinary System i sub-system, and therefore has to be started as such. It is a good idea to let the sub-system start automatically at IPL. This is done by inserting the following command in your startup program: STRSBS SBSD(APF3812/OSCCTL) MONMSG CPF0000 Of course, you can always start the sub-system manually, by the command: STRSBS APF3812/OSCCTL 11. End OSCCTL subsystem Before making upgrades the OSCCTL subsystem should be ended. This can be done in the menu or by the command: ENDSBS SBS(OSCCTL) OPTION(*IMMED) 12. Work with Active Subsystem OSCCTL This menu item is a shortcut to the command: WRKACTJOB SBS(OSCCTL) If the subsystem is started, it will look like this: InterForm A/S 273
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Table of Contents 4 User’s Manual
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About This Manual This manual is in
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W hat is new in the 2012 versions T
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PCL/PDF output • Images and fonts
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The m odules of InterForm400 Below
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Copy Management Copy management is
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