HP Distributed Print Service (HPDPS)

HPDPS has added a new command, pdgwcfg, to simplify the administration of Gateway Printers in the Basic Environment. See pdgwcfg(1M) for more information.

HPDPS supports a new environment variable PDIDTABLE in order to control the size of the table, created for a user, that maps local job identifier and global job identifier.

HPDPS has added 3 new environment variables (PD_MAXRETRIES, PD_RETRY_INTERVAL, and PD_MAXTHREADS) to provide flexibility in tuning load handling when necessary. See "Getting Started with HPDPS" in the 11.0 HPDPS Administration Guide for more information.

HPDPS supports submitting a job with multiple documents using a reference file. If you frequently need to print a group of documents, you can reference the documents in a file. Then, when you need to print the group, you can submit the reference file instead of typing the names of all the documents in the job. HPDPS prints each file listed in the reference file.

When submitting jobs consisting of more than one document, you can supply information with the job on the number of pages in each document. You can also specify a page count for a job consisting of a single document. Operators or administrators can use this information to help manage job flow.

HPDPS supports multiple client daemons in different languages. HPDPS can support multiple locales on the same host. Multiple Client Daemons are brought up, each to support a specific locale. HPDPS sends messages, including messages written to the error logs, in the language for the locale.

HPDPS supports 2 new delivery methods in notification profile:

See the chapter "Using Notification" in the 11.0 HPDPS Administration Guide for more information.