Re: System/36 Procedures on AS/400

Where AS/400 output goes is a complicated mixture of user settings, work 
station settings, software settings, and whether the printer really is still 
called P8.  Be sure your configuration is setup so that if it loses 
addresses, which periodically happens to us like when someone is 
disconnecting, reconnecting ... the auto config will create P8 not PRT09 or 
the logical address.

Our user settings for what printer to go to has *WRKSTN which means that 
instead of all reports for a user going to a particular printer irrespective 
of what work station they are using in whatever location in a distant city, 
it goes from where the rules are for where they physically are located for 
this session.  Our software also has some data areas so this can be further 
tuned by software environment - same user - same work station - different 
printer for test environment vs. live production work.

The Job Description is associated with the user's sign on session from a 
particular work station.  In some cases, we do not want the output going to 
the standard location for a work station, so we use the CL over-ride printer 
statement, before the actual program is executed, to say that it should go to 
some other printer, but more often it is a case of on-hold, or save after 
printing, or extra copies.

>  From:    keith.nolan@dubport.ccs.ie
>  
>  Hi all,
>  
>   We have recently migrated from a system/36 to an AS/400 and we have 
brought 
> all our procedures over from the 36.  I have a Query about setting the 
> printer in the OCL Procedure.  When we try to use the same procedures in 
the 
> AS/400 the printouts do not get routed to the right printers...  An example 
> of this is ...
>  
>   //****
>   // LOAD MILESP                             
>   // FILE NAME-MILES,LABEL-P.MILES,DISP-SHR  
>   // PRINTER NAME-PRINT1,DEVICE-L2,PRIORITY-0
>   // PRINTER NAME-PRINT2,DEVICE-P8           
>   // RUN 
>   //*****
>  
>   When this procedure is run both of the printouts go to the printer in the 
> users Job Description and they are not re-routed????  We have mapped our 
> printer names on the AS/400 to printer names in the 36 environment but this 
> procedure still doesn't work....
>  
>  TIA
>  
>  Keith                              


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