RE: Weird Printer Issue

Strictly from an OS/400 view, we've had this sort of thing happen when users changed an outq to print to a different writer. Generally it was users in a WRKWTR ASTLVL(*BASIC) who didn't understand the options. Ending and starting the writer resets it back to normal. That wouldn't really explain your held/release scenario unless someone was messing with it at the time you looked.
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Sean Porterfield


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From: Jerry C. Adams

I have one heck of a flaky situation. First, about two weeks ago I connected a PC printer in our warehouse manager's office to our System i
(V5R1) via PC5250 printer emulation. Worked great - until yesterday.



The reports, documents, etc., for the two girls in the office started printing to this new printer (BB), even though the OCL or CL explicitly referenced a different printer. I even changed a procedure so that the report (a one-pager) would be put on Hold. The @#$% thing not only went to BB even though P6 was explicitly defined, but it was released. I ran the same procedure from my workstation and everything was cool.

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