To begin the queue creation process, type the SMIT fast path smit mkquedev . Use arrow keys to scroll. This is the file to which processed jobs submitted to the queue you are creating are written. The name of the file can be anything that adheres to AIX naming conventions. A reasonable action is to create a file just for the purpose of being the target of file queues.
Any print job submitted to the spooler queue asc is processed by the pipeline set up by piobe .
This is not what you want to happen. If you use this queue in this state, you do not see anything written to a file or printed anywhere, except maybe for error messages. The eventual recipient and user of the file descriptor is whatever program is pointed to by the mo attribute. The default program pointed to by the mo attribute is pioout and, when jobs are put on the queue when it is in this state, pioout will not have a valid value for stdout, and the processed job will simply vanish. At this point, you can use lsvirprt to select the asc virtual printer definition for modification .