Displaying the Status of Spool and Output Requests

The lists of spool and output requests (transaction SP01) display, among other things, the status of the requests. A request shows a status indicating whether data is stored in the SAP spool system, in the host spool system (operating system spooler), or at the printer.

The following statuses indicate the processing status of a request:

Indicator	Processing Status
-	Spool requests has not yet been sent to the host spool system (no output request exists).
+	Spool request is being generated (stored in the SAP spool system)
Waiting	The output request is awaiting processing by the SAP spool system and has not yet been sent to the host spool system.
Waiting in host spooler	The output request is intended for the spool work process or formatting in the host spool system, or this is currently being performed. If this status is displayed for a request for an extended period of time (more than one minute), then the spool work process that is responsible for the request may have terminated, or there may be a problem establishing a connection to a remote output device. The spool work process automatically reprints the output request affected by the problem.
In Processing	The spool work process is formatting the output request for printing.
Print.(printing)	The request has been passed to the host spooler or to an output device and a final status has not yet been returned to the SAP spool system.
Compl. (completed)	The output request has been successfully printed. In systems in which the SAP spool system cannot get information from the host spooler, the status becomes Complete as soon as the output request has been passed to the host spooler.
	More than one output request has been generated and the requests have different statuses. Some requests may not yet have a final processing status. To display the status of individual requests, choose Output requests or double-click the request status.
Problem	Indicates that there is a minor problem; the output request was printed, but probably contains errors. Example: If the printer character set is incomplete, a missing character is replaced with another (#).
Error	Indicates that there is a problem with severe consequences. The output request could not be printed. The spool system retains such requests until you delete them or they exceed a set retention period and are deleted by a reorganization. Example: The system cannot find the printer in the network. Use the error log to determine the cause of the error. For more information, see Output Log .
Archive	(For spool requests sent to an archiving device) The spool request was processed by the spool system and is waiting to be archived.
Time or. Scheduled	The user who created the request specified a specific time when the request is to be output.

If you want to view a log of the events of an output request, double-click the status of a request.

For frontend printing output requests, the status of the output request is set to Completed as soon as the output request has been transmitted to the target PC. The system can only log error messages relating to communication with the PC in the log. Other error messages are lost.