Attributes of a Bundle

You can enter the user ID of the person who is responsible for this bundle.

If you make no entry here, your user ID is automatically written into this field.

The coordinator's name, address and telephone number can be printed at the top of the front page of the bundle separator, if desired.

The coordinator's name, address and telephone number can be used as substitution variables for separator pages.

To select a coordinator from a list of all authorized users, you enter a question mark (?) in this field.

• Master definition (M).

• Suspended definition; that is, a definition that is currently not being used (S).

A closed bundle is kept in the Entire Output Management database until its retention period has expired. A closed bundle can accept no more reports and a new version of the bundle is opened for additional reports.

See also Retention Period in Components of Bundle Defaults in the System Administration documentation.

• Working days (W)

• Absolute days (A)

• Weeks (V)

• Months (M)

If you select "working days", you have to select a calendar which distinguishes between working and non-working days.

To do so, enter an asterisk (*) in this field. A list of all defined calendars will be displayed, from which you select one.

For more information on calendars, see Calendars in the System Administration documentation.

Example: You have defined a calendar in which Saturday and Sunday are marked as holidays. If have specified "2" as the Period, and "working days" as the Unit and the bundle is created on Friday evening, it will be retained until Tuesday evening.

Enter "Y" to activate the time schedule, which you can define by pressing PF8 (Sched). See Schedule Attributes.

Enter the names of up to 10 reports which trigger the printing of the bundle. The bundle is printed when all these reports arrive.

To select a trigger report from a list, you enter a question mark (?) in one of these fields.

Trigger reports are automatically added to the list of reports to be included in the bundle (see Functions for Reports in a Bundle). However, they are not automatically deleted from Bundle Contents (Report in Bundle screen) when removed from report arrival. Other reports contained in a bundle will be printed but do no trigger printing.

Should a printing date fall on a calendar holiday, enter "A" here to print on the first working day after the holiday, or enter "B" to print on the last working day before the holiday.

To print the bundle on the same days every week, enter the two-letter code for the days: SA = Saturday, SU = Sunday, MO = Monday, TU = Tuesday, WE = Wednesday, TH = Thursday, FR = Friday.

If the bundle is to be printed on the same dates every month, enter the dates here in two-digit format: 01, 02, 03 ... etc.. Enter ALL for all days of the month or LD for the last day of the month.

You can specify a calendar here. Or you can select a calendar from a list by entering an asterisk (*) in this field.

The bundle is then only printed on days defined as working days in the calendar, but not on days defined as holidays.

For more information on calendars, see Calendars in the System Administration documentation.

Enter "Y" to hold bundle printing until released manually. Enter "N" to print the bundle immediately.

"Y" - The report separator page is printed (this is the default).

"N" - The report separator page is not printed.

The number of separator pages can be defined for each report in the bundle; see Adding a Report to a Bundle.

To edit a separator page, position the cursor on the Start or End field, and press PF10 (Edit).

A sample exit is supplied in UEXBUNPR in the library SYSNOMS.

If you leave this field blank, the jobcards specified for the logical printer are used instead.

See Adding a New Logical Printer.

You can enter the names of up to 5 logical printers on which to print the bundle. For a selection list of printers, enter an asterisk (*) in one of these fields.

To specify more than 5 printers, you press PF11 (Prtr) on the Bundle Definition > Printing Attributes screen. The Bundle Definition > Additional Printers screen is displayed, on which you can specify up to 15 additional printers, and the number of copies to be printed on each of them. For a selection list of printers, enter an asterisk (*) in one of the Printers fields on that screen.