Re: Barcode printers/AS400/BPCS

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

>From Al Macintyre

>  From:    RickCarter@holley.com
>  
>  BPCS 6.02 Mixmode AS400  V4R2  RISC
>  
>  We currently have an inhouse written shipping label generated from RPG code
>  that is printing via an AS400 dumb terminals comm port  to a SATO label
>  printer .  This custom job extracts shipping data from BPCS and prints on
>  the label.  Here's my issue.  I have a new  warehouse facility across town
>  with T1 connection back to our AS400.  All network addressed PC's there
>  running green screen emulation via Client Access. I want to hook up another
>  Sato printer there and run the same custom program.  I'm having trouble
>  getting the SATO printer to print from the custom program through Client
>  Access.  I've also tried using a print server instead of client access.   I
>  can't install dumb terminals in the new facility unless I buy a remote
>  controller which I don' t really want to do.

<< snip >>

Suggestion ... trade in your current connection for one that supports both 
twinax and PC via internet VPN ... several such models are available from 
Perle & IO & possibly other places.  The financial hit should be minimal.  I 
am not an expert on this ... the place where the experts on this hang out are 
on the forums moderated by the AS/400 trade publications.

Second idea ... seek a screen scraper tool such as Seagull so that you can 
have a Client/Server version of your custom RPG program, running on the 
hardware that is now at the new warehouse.

Al Macintyre
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