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PN5_60694

Description

Spooler: The SETPTR banner does not persist after being set by a previous SETPTR 


Previous Release Behavior

When a banner was specified in a SETPTR command then it did not persist to subsequent SETPTR commands, e.g. 

jsh home ~ -->SETPTR ,132,62,0,0,3,AT FILE,BANNER wibble
Unit Number   :0
Page Width    :132
Page Depth    :62
Top Margin    :0
Bottom Margin :0
Print mode    : 3 - Output to HOLD file ( wibble )

Default spool banner : "wibble"
Destination printer  : $JBCRELEASEDIR%stmp%s%q_%j.txt
Initial Job State    : HOLD

jsh home ~ -->SETPTR ,80,25,0,0,3
Unit Number   :0
Page Width    :80
Page Depth    :25
Top Margin    :0
Bottom Margin :0
Print mode    : 3 - Output to HOLD file ( P#0000 )

Default spool banner : "P#0000"
Destination printer  : $JBCRELEASEDIR%stmp%s%q_%j.txt
Initial Job State    : HOLD

In the above example, the banner was reset to the default P#0000. 

The banner should have been kept as wibble, which is the default behavior on platforms that support the SETPTR command. 


Current Release Behavior

Any time a banner is used with SETPTR then it uses that banner. However, if the previous SETPTR specified a banner and a one is NOT specified with the current SETPTR then we pick up the existing banner unless the SETPTR command used the AT printer option. 

The SP-ASSIGN command unconditially resets the BANNER to its default of P#0000. 

e.g. 

jsh home ~ -->SETPTR ,132,62,0,0,3,AT FILE,BANNER wibble
Unit Number   :0
Page Width    :132
Page Depth    :62
Top Margin    :0
Bottom Margin :0
Print mode    : 3 - Output to HOLD file ( wibble )

Default spool banner : "wibble"
Destination printer  : /home/danielk/temp/file.txt
Initial Job State    : HOLD

jsh home ~ -->SETPTR ,80,25,0,0,3
Unit Number   :0
Page Width    :80
Page Depth    :25
Top Margin    :0
Bottom Margin :0
Print mode    : 3 - Output to HOLD file ( wibble )

Default spool banner : "wibble"
Destination printer  : /home/danielk/temp/file.txt
Initial Job State    : HOLD

jsh home ~ -->SP-ASSIGN
jsh home ~ -->SETPTR ?
Unit Number   :0
Page Width    :132
Page Depth    :64
Top Margin    :3
Bottom Margin :3
Print mode    : 1 - Spooled Output

Default spool banner : "P#0000"
Destination printer  : /dev/lp0
Initial Job State    : PRINT

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