RE: TCP/IP Printing, # of Copies -- MIDRANGE-L

Check out my PRTRNG tool.  It will allow printing of page ranges as long
as the spooled file is non IPDS or AFP.  With normal spooled files it
works slick.
http://prairie.lakes.com/~bvstone/as400sw.html

Follow the download link.  It's there, and it works.

Bradley V. Stone        
bvstone@taylorcorp.com
http://prairie.lakes.com/~bvstone/
"Does this proposition entail my dressing up as Little Boe Peep?" -
Fletch

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MARK_WELTE@denso-diam.com [SMTP:MARK_WELTE@denso-diam.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 1998 8:51 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: TCP/IP Printing, # of Copies
> 
> Denis,
> 
> I just tried the DESTOPT('XAUTOQ XAIX') parameter. It did not handle
> the
> number of copies or page range parameters. I first did a CHGOUTQ
> command.
> Then I even did a CRTOUTQ with the DESTOPT parameter on it. The AS/400
> I
> tried this on is at V3R2. The TCP/IP printer is a HP IIIsi with an
> internal
> Jet Direct Ethernet card. Does this just work on certain levels of
> OS/400?
> I haven't heard of this fix so I was very eager to try it out.
> 
> I think the large amount of complaining is coming from the expectation
> that
> functionality of a feature to always be brought forward. On our direct
> attach printers, we have full function with the parameters on a spool
> file.
> Same goes for a printer started with a PC5250 printer session on most
> protocols. When the TCP/IP print feature came out, we jumped all over
> it
> because it provided a AS/400 printer to anyone who has a printer on
> the
> network. No new cards, no additional cost, no helping users with
> printer
> sessions (has anybody started the printer yet?)--we just used what was
> already there. Then, the printer savvy users tried to print pages 1-5
> of a
> 500 page report and all 500 pages came out. So, I have to explain to
> the
> users that IBM didn't provide the page range feature for this type of
> printing. They don't understand why it doesn't work when their old
> PC5250
> printer sessions did. Also, it causes them to question my abilities
> (some
> users think that I don't know how to make it work so they think that
> I'm
> just saying that IBM doesn't support it). This is then one step
> forward,
> two steps back.
> 
> While on the soapbox, I feel that features should not be hard to find.
> To
> me, undocumented (or buried deep on one page of a 500 page IBM manual)
> = no
> feature. If I have to spend a whole day to find something, then it
> isn't
> well documented. That just shouldn't happen any more. Especially with
> the
> internet, manuals on CD-ROM, etc.
> 
> Thanks for any more help that you can provide on this feature.
> 
> Mark Welte
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> DRobitaille@Cascades.com on 05/04/98 08:23:04 AM
> 
> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> 
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> cc:    (bcc: MARK WELTE/DMTN)
> Subject:  Re: TCP/IP Printing, # of Copies
> 
> 
> 
> 
> When you create the OUTQ for your HP printer, be sure to specify the
> keyword
> DESTOPT('XAUTOQ XAIX')
> This will fix the number of copies problem for sure and i think also
> the
> page range problem.
> By the way, i am surprised to read all the bitching (sorry for the
> term,
> english is not my first language) about TCPIP lack of feature. Sure
> some
> thigns are lacking, but lots of thing are there, they are just hard to
> find.
> Denis Robitaille
> Cascades inc.
> Tel: 819-363-5187
> DRobitaille@cascades.com
> 
> 
> 
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