SPOOL

[Former Member]

Hi Folks,

What is the use of spool? Can anybody give brief idea about spool?

Thanks

Ravi

[Former Member]

Hi Ravi,

Spool is u can say a memory area where all ur outputs are placed.

e.g. if u want to take a print of any form from SAP, then it will create a spool request in which a unique number will be assigned to ur print and it will be sent to Printer. The Spool requests can be viewed using transaction SP01.

Regards,

Himanshu.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Spool Administaration in SAP is a separate topic for printing the outputs.

When ever you generate a report a spool request number is created and from SP01 you can execute that spool and see the output or print the output.

Spool is a separate work process in SAP which will take care of all print related tasks.

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regards,

ANji

[Former Member]

hi ravi

hopen the following info helps u !!!!

Spool is basically to hold the output data while run in batch mode. This cna be later used for printing as well.

Spool is created when you run a program in background

here all characteristics of a print are stored: layout, device, status, etc. etc.

<b><u><i>a sample code</i></u></b>

FORM SEND_TO_SPOOL.

CALL FUNCTION 'GET_PRINT_PARAMETERS'

EXPORTING DESTINATION = 'LOCL'

COPIES = COUNT

LIST_NAME = 'FBL1N'

LIST_TEXT = 'SUBMIT ... TO SAP-SPOOL'

IMMEDIATELY = ' '

RELEASE = ' '

NEW_LIST_ID = 'X'

EXPIRATION = DAYS

LINE_SIZE = 170

LINE_COUNT = 58

LAYOUT = 'X_58_170'

SAP_COVER_PAGE = ' '

COVER_PAGE = ' '

RECEIVER = 'SAP*'

DEPARTMENT = 'System'

SAP_OBJECT = 'RS'

AR_OBJECT = 'TEST'

ARCHIVE_ID = 'XX'

ARCHIVE_INFO = 'III'

ARCHIVE_TEXT = 'Description'

NO_DIALOG = 'X'

IMPORTING OUT_PARAMETERS = PARAMS

OUT_ARCHIVE_PARAMETERS = ARPARAMS

VALID = VALID.

IF VALID <> SPACE.

SUBMIT RFITEMAP USING SELECTION-SET VARIANT

TO SAP-SPOOL

SPOOL PARAMETERS PARAMS

ARCHIVE PARAMETERS ARPARAMS

WITHOUT SPOOL DYNPRO

AND RETURN.

ENDIF.

ENDFORM.

regards

navjot

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[Former Member]

Hi,

The spool work process processes the print data into a printable data stream. The printable data is transferred to an operating system spooler. This then forwards the data to the printer

Chk this link for more details:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/7a5f4061-0a01-0010-c9bc-a4e4cb10...

regards,

keerthi