The spool: printing and output queues
On an IBM i you do not print: you produce spool. Understanding the difference also explains why the disk fills up.
Articles tagged #spool — 3 results
Reading a spooled file with SQL
Querying the contents of a spooled file without copying it into a physical file first.
Printing without pain: a guide to output queues
"It will not print" is the most frequent report and the one with the fewest things to check: queue, writer, printer. In that order, and it takes two minutes.