Basic printing terminology

The following is a list of some terminology that you might find in this topic:

auxiliary storage pool (ASP)

One or more storage units that are defined from the storage devices or storage device subsystems that make up auxiliary storage. An ASP provides a way of organizing data to limit the impact of storage-device failures and to reduce recovery time. See also disk pool.

disk pool

An auxiliary storage pool that contains only disk units.

independent ASP

See independent disk pool.

independent disk pool

One or more storage units that are defined from the disk units or disk-unit subsystems that make up addressable disk storage. An independent disk pool contains objects, the directories that contain the objects, and other object attributes such as authorization ownership attributes. An independent disk pool can be made available (varied on) and made unavailable (varied off) without restarting the system. An independent disk pool can be either a) switchable among multiple systems in a clustering environment or b) privately connected to a single system.

printer output

A file that holds output data that is waiting to be processed for printing. See also spooled file.

spooled file

A file that holds output data that is waiting to be processed for printing. See also printer output.