When
You want the booking files of a queue on paper (for a meeting, a back-up, or to work through away from the screen), or you want a queue's files rearranged in the order of their first travel date.
Check first
- An itinerary printer is linked to your terminal (Link your terminal to the ticket printer (NO LINKAGE)).
- One print run takes at most 385 booking files on the itinerary printer — print big queues in ranges.
Steps
| # | Entry | What it does | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | QPRINT/B/41 | Prints every booking file on queue 41. | The whole pile on paper. |
| 2 | QPRINT/B/41*CVP*D2 | Prints queue 41, category VP, date range 2. | One pile only. |
| 3 | QPRINT/B/41*H | Prints the files of queue 41 with their history. | When changes need to be traced. |
| 4 | QPRINT/B/41*1/50 | Prints files 1 to 50 of queue 41. | Large queues in parts. |
| 5 | QPRINT/B/41*1/50*N.I+*H | Prints files 1 to 50 with names and itinerary, plus history. | A lighter print. |
| 6 | QPRINT/STOP | Stops the printing. | Wrong queue, or far too long. |
| 7 | P-QCA | Sends the queue count to the printer instead of the screen. | P- works in front of most queue entries. |
| 8 | QSORT45/46 | Sorts all files of queue 45 into queue 46 by the date of their first active segment. | Work the nearest departures first. |
| 9 | QSORT45/7XQ1/46 | Sorts queue 45 into queue 46 of branch 7XQ1. | Another office gets the sorted pile. |
| 10 | QSORTID45/46*CVP | Sorts only category VP of queue 45 into queue 46. | Sort one pile. |
Check it worked
The printer delivers the files. After a sort, QCB/45 shows the old queue empty, and signing in
with Q/46 brings the files up in travel-date order.
Traps
- Sorting moves the files from the first queue to the second — tell colleagues which queue to work afterwards.
QSORTID*45/+ agent sign-on ID +/46sorts using that sign-on ID; several IDs, each with its own receiving queue, can go in one entry joined with+. Check the exact IDs first.- Printing with history (
*H) makes long prints — use ranges. - Another branch's queue: put the branch before the queue number,
QPRINT/B/7XQ1/41.