Xerox 721P85530 User Manual

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PRINT DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE (PDL)

XEROX DOCUPRINT 180 LPS PDL REFERENCE

2-13

For example, to reference the catalog named POWER in a job, the
job level command would be:

JOB1:JDE INCLUDE=POWER;

Job or JDE level

The job or JDE level allows the grouping of individual jobs together.
PDL commands coded within the job command level override the
system commands. PDL commands from a catalog command level
can be incorporated as shown in the command syntax below. For
each job, values not specified in any of the command sets are taken
from the PDL defaults as defined in appendix A. The JOB or JDE
command has the following form:

jdl-name: {JOB JDE} [INCLUDE = (cat-name

1

[,

cat-name

2

][,...])];

jde-name is a 1 to 6 character alphanumeric identifier. It specifies the
name of the JDE being defined.

cat-name or cat-name-n is a 1 to 6 character alphanumeric identifier
of a previously defined catalog name.

Examples–JOB command

JOB2: JDE;
JOB3: JOB
INCLUDE=POWER;
JOB4: JDE;
LINE VFU=VFU2;
OUTPUT FORMS=AY2F;

A JOB command continues until another JOB, JDE command or
END command is encountered. The catalog identifier in a JOB or
JDE command as with JOB3 above, JOB2 is used along with the
identifier on the SYSTEM command set to initiate a print job. When
DFLT is coded for the jde-name, the specification of a JDE parameter
option on the START command is not necessary.

END command

A JDL terminates with the END command. If one JDL is to follow
another, the next command after the END command should be
another SYSTEM command.

The end of all JDLs to be processed is indicated by two consecutive
END commands:

END; END;

Figures 2-4 and 2-5 provide examples of offline and online JDLs.

In figure 2-4, note that HOST=POWERVS indicates the source and
structure of input data. The HOST command indicates whether the
JSL is for an offline or online job. Some HOST parameters can apply
to both online and offline hosts. Refer to appendix A for a quick
reference.

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