print during cob

Can you be a bit more precisely ?

During COB there are different ways to print that also depend on the way the ourput is generated . . .

From user Guide "Close of Business" :

Batch Output
All reports, COMOs etc. produced by the batch system are output using the T24 report control system. This enables the operator to determine the destination printer, user addressing, number of copies etc. The following applications are used in this process:



Figure 9 – COB Output Applications

From User Guide "Report Control" :

Close of Business (Batch) Processing
Users to receive batch reports
Reports produced by the Close of Business (Batch) run can be addressed to certain users by specifying the report names and number of copies requested in fields RPT.TO.RECEIVE and RPT.COPIES of the USER records.
When the COB output is spooled the USER file is scanned for users who have requested reports and their address details are extracted and printed on the banner page of each report requested.

Deferring all Close of Business (Batch) output
The output produced by an EOD (Batch) run, can be held by setting the HOLD.BATCH.OUTPUT field on the SYSTEM record in the SPF file to ‘Y’.
When the COB batch is being run all the output will be written to the “&HOLD&” file on disk and not sent for spooling.
Note:
When a process/job in the batch is rerun for any reason then the previous job (log) file for the process will be spooled out to the printer.
Deferring output from individual batch processes
When the output from the COB (Batch) run is not being held but being spooled immediately, the output from the individual batch processes/jobs can be held by specifying a destination printer of “HOLD” in fields DEFAULT.PRINTER and/or PRINTER.NAME of the BATCH record for the process.
When the COB is being run, the output from the batch processes/jobs with a destination printer of “HOLD” will not be printed.
Spooling Close of Business output manually
The output from a previous batch run can be spooled by using the application SPOOL.BATCH.OUTPUT in ‘V’erify mode.
This maintains a history of 5 batch run start date and times, the most recent one is held in record 1.
The output will be spooled to a single printer (defined in field DEST.PRINTER of the SPOOL.BATCH.OUTPUT record) in a sorted order (by department/user/report name) with a covering dispatch list.
The banner on the reports will be addressed to those users defined in the USER file who have requested to receive the COB output. If any reports are found to have no destination user then they are addressed to the current user requesting the re-spool.
Unrequested reports can be suppressed (i.e. not spooled) by setting field SPOOL.ALL.OUTPUT of the SPOOL.BATCH.OUTPUT record to ‘N’.
Note:
The actual number of batch reports held on disk will depend on the report purge cycle.
Reports listing output to be received
Two online reports are provided which list the batch output to be received.
These applications can be run online or as part of the batch.



Figure 8 - Two online reports can be run online or as part of batch

BATCH :
If a report is requested in a BATCH using e.g. EB.PRINT you can define in DATA the reort/enquiry and append IMMEDIATE to have the output spooled directly even if the parameter in SPF is set to Y.