Attributes of a Bundle

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# Attributes of a Bundle

This section describes the components of a bundle definition:

- General Attributes

- Print Events

- Schedule Attributes

- Printing Attributes

Default values for bundle attributes can be set by the system administrator in Bundle Defaults.

## General Attributes

Field | Explanation
--- | ---
Bundle | You have to enter a unique name for the bundle when you are creating a new bundle. This field is protected when you modify an existing bundle.
Description | Enter a short description for the bundle.
Type | The type of bundle: Master. Suspended; that is, a definition that is currently not being used.
Coordinator ID | You can enter the user ID of the person who is responsible for this bundle. See Selecting a Bundle Coordinator below. 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 users, you can use the Select button next to this field.
Retention
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.
Period | Enter the number of working days, absolute days, weeks or months the bundle should be kept in the Entire Output Management database, after it has been closed.
Unit | Possible values: Working days Absolute days Weeks Months If you select "working days", you have to select a calendar which distinguishes between working and non-working days.
Calendar | Select a calendar, if "working days" is the unit for the retention period. 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.
Print events
See below.

## Print Events

Field | Explanation
--- | ---
Print latest after | If none of the other print events occurs before the period entered here has expired, bundle closing and printing is forced.
Period | Enter the number of working days, absolute days, weeks or months the bundle should remain open.
Unit | Same as for Unit under Retention, above.
Calendar | Same as for Calendar under Retention, above.
Print if number of lines in bundle exceeded | When the report that causes this line number to be exceeded has been written to the bundle, the bundle is closed and scheduled for printing.
Print if the following reports arrived | Enter the names of up to 10 reports which trigger the printing of the bundle. The bundle is printed when all these reports arrive.

## Schedule Attributes

Field | Explanation
--- | ---
No print schedule | No print schedule is active for the bundle definition.
Print every day / on selected days of the month/week | You can select printing of the bundle to be scheduled for every day or for certain days of the month or for certain week days: Print every day: If you choose this option, printing will be scheduled daily. Print on selected days of the month: If you choose this option, a list of days (1 to 31) will be displayed, on which you select the desired date(s). For printing on the last day of every month, you select "Last day". Print on selected days of the week: If you choose this option, a list of week days (Monday to Sunday) will be displayed, on which you select the desired day(s).
Not before | The bundle will not be printed before the time you specify here.
Every | You can specify a time interval here.
Not after | The bundle will not be printed after the time you specify here.
Calendar | If you select a calendar, the bundle is only printed on days defined as working days in that calendar, but not on days defined as holidays. For more information on calendars, see Calendars in the System Administration documentation.
Holiday rule | Should a printing date fall on a calendar holiday, you can select "Before holiday" or "After holiday" to print on the last working day before or the first working day after the holiday respectively.

## Printing Attributes

Field | Explanation
--- | ---
Hold before print | Mark the checkbox to hold bundle printing until released manually. Otherwise the bundle is printed immediately.
Report separator pages | Mark the checkbox to print the report separator pages. The number of separator pages can be defined for each report in the bundle; see Adding a Report to a Bundle.
Bundle separator pages | Start | Enter the name of the separator page to be printed at the beginning of the bundle.
End | Enter the name of the separator page to be printed at the end of the bundle.
Copies | Specify how many times each separator page is to be printed for the bundle.
See Separator Pages for further information.
Print control exit | A printer control exit can be used to decide whether or not a bundle is actually printed after it has been sent to the printout queue. For example, you may not want to print bundles which only contain one report. A sample exit is supplied in `UEXBUNPR` in the library `SYSNOMS`.
Natural member | The name of the user exit.
Natural library | The name of the library containing the user exit.
Jobcards | Enter the job cards used when bundle printing is performed with batch jobs. The following substitution variables can be used: `§USER`, `§BUNDLE`. If you leave this field blank, the jobcards specified for the logical printer are used instead. See the Jobcards field in the General Attributes of the logical printer.
Printers | Printer | Use the Select button on the right to select a logical printer. See Selecting Printers for a Bundle below.
Copies | Specify the number of copies of the bundle to be printed on the respective printer. See Setting the Number of Copies for a Printer below.

#### Selecting Printers for a Bundle

To select a logical printer from a list of defined printers:

1. Choose the Select button to the right of the Printers/Copies list.

   The Select Printers window is displayed.

2. Select a printer from the Printers list in the upper part of the window and choose the down arrow on the right.

   The selected printer is written to the Selected Printers list in the lower part of the dialog. (To remove a printer from the Selected Printers list, select the printer and choose the up arrow on the right.)

3. When you have finished selecting printers, choose OK.

   The selected printers now appear in the Printers/Copies list.

#### Setting the Number of Copies for a Printer

To set the number of copies for a printer:

1. In the Printers/Copies list, select the desired printer, and choose Modify.

2. The selected printer appears in the box at the bottom of the Printers/Copies list.

3. In the box next to the printer name, enter the desired number of copies.

4. Choose To List.

   The changed number of copies is displayed in the Printers/Copies list.

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- General Attributes
- Print Events
- Schedule Attributes
- Printing Attributes