Description

Use the pdcreate administrative command to create InfoPrint objects (except servers, logs, documents and jobs) and to set their attributes to specific values.

You can specify any initially settable or resettable attribute for an object with the pdcreate command. You can specify an initially settable attribute only when you create an object.

Note: InfoPrint creates servers and logs when the server starts. InfoPrint creates documents and jobs when users submit files for printing or transmission with the pdpr command.

You can use the pdcreate command to create objects for these object classes:

  • destination (logical and actual)
  • queue
  • initial-value-job
  • initial-value-document
  • medium
  • auxiliary-sheet
  • resource-context
  • transform

When you create a destination, it remains in the disabled state and InfoPrint cannot accept any jobs for it until you enable the destination. You must enter the pdenable command to enable the destinations.

An object you create with the pdcreate command still exists even if the server that contains it terminates normally (shut down) or abnormally. A logical destination or queue returns to its previous state when its server restarts; an actual destination tries to return to its previous state when its server restarts.

Parent topic: pdcreate command: creates InfoPrint Manager objects