Re: A dumb *S36 question - printer problem

["Jerome Draper" <jdraper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am re-reading your post and noted the "would not clos the mapped outq
file" part.  This may be our issue.

Jerry

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----- Original Message -----
From: ken shields <kjs@idirect.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: A dumb *S36 question - printer problem


> Had a similar problem on a 170, several moons ago.
> Problem was the rpg LR logic would not clos the mapped outq file.
> There was a special patch supplied by IBM, to fix the problem.
> The office is in Montreal, so I don't have the patch reference.
> Will try to get it for you.
> Ken
>
> Jerome Draper wrote:
> >
> > I am running in *M36 mode and I am having a weird printer problem.
> >
> > My M36 printers are "mapped" to OS400 outq's using WRKM36CFG.  This
means
> > that a report sent to P5 (as configured using CNFIGSSP) never really
lands
> > there but gets "whooshed" directly to the "mapped" outq on the OS/400
side.
> > The M36 printer is a 5224/25 "mapped" to a printer on the OS400 side
which
> > is actually a PC running an emulated 3812 printer.
> >
> > When I print regular reports they print fine.
> >
> > I have a problem with the purchase order report.  When I print a single
PO
> > it prints fine.  When I print multiple PO's each PO is programmed to go
to
> > into an individual spooled report.  The first PO spooled report prints
fine.
> > The second one stays infinitely in OPN status with 0 pages and we are
never
> > able to do anything with it except delete it.  As it is "mapped" it
never
> > appears on the S36 side.
> >
> > As a test I printed the same PO report to stopped printer P3 on the S36
> > side.  The two PO spooled entries showed up and were viewable with
COPYPRT.
> > I moved them to the "mapped" printer P6 which whoosed them off to the
AS400
> > TN5250e emulated printer and they showed up on the correct outq ready to
> > print and printed fine.
> >
> > We are at V4R2 and PTFed to current status.
> >
> > Jerry
> >
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