RE: [LINUX5250] Printer Support

["Rosewood" <rosewood@xxxxxx>]

There was no PRT03 that I saw

An example print conf page

                                    Print Options                   Page
1 of 4


 Document  . . . . . . . . . . . :   ACMSRECR



 Type choices, press Enter.

   Page range:

     Start page  . . . . . . . . .   *FIRST       0.01-9999.99, *FIRST,
*LAST
     End page  . . . . . . . . . .   *LAST        0.01-9999.99, *FIRST,
*LAST
                                                  *STRPAGE

   Number of copies  . . . . . . .   1            1-99

   Output device . . . . . . . . .   1            1=Printer, 2=Display

                                                  3=File

     Printer . . . . . . . . . . .   PRT03        *USRPRF, *SYSVAL,
*WRKSTN
                                                  Printer ID

     Output queue  . . . . . . . .   *DEV         Name, *DEV, *FILE,
*WRKSTN
       Library . . . . . . . . . .   *LIBL        Name, *LIBL

     Output file . . . . . . . . .   *DOC         Name, *DOC, *FILE

     Form type . . . . . . . . . .   LH02         Printer form

     Printer file  . . . . . . . .   QSYSPRT      Name

       Library . . . . . . . . . .   *LIBL        Name, *LIBL


More...

I don't see anything there about scs or ipds and I have no idea what
either is or how I can check :P

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux5250-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:linux5250-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of James Rich
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:29 AM
> To: linux5250@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: [LINUX5250] Printer Support
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Rosewood wrote:
>
> > lp5250d env.DEVNAME=PRT03 'outputcommand=scs2pdf
> /tmp/spoolfile$$.pdf'
> > 192.168.0.2
> >
> > That's the command I ran, and prt03 is created, and I don't
> seem to be
> > getting error messages when I print to it, however I don't
> seem to get
> > any files created either, and I ran the command as root on
> the linux
> > box
>
> Hmmm...  That looks right.  Perhaps you are trying to print
> IPDS documents?  scs2pdf only support *SCS printouts.  You
> might also try putting the full path names in, i.e.:
>
> lp5250d env.DEVNAME=PRT03 \
> 'outputcommand=/usr/bin/scs2pdf /tmp/spoolfile$$.pdf' \ 192.168.0.2
>
> (my scs2pdf is in /usr/bin, yours may be different, like
> /usr/local/bin)
>
> You should be sure that you didn't already have a PRT03
> configured on the AS/400 since it will use the previous
> definition which may not be valid.
>
> James Rich
>
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