Re: SAP R/3 on AS/400 and AFP-Printing

Dear Norbert,

The data stream sample that you appended to your e-mail shows that the AS/400 
host print transform function is enabled. This feature converts the data stream 
from the AS/400's EBCDIC format to an ASCII equivalence before sending it to 
the target printer.

If you turn off the host print transform feature in the target printer's AS/400 
device description, you will be able to send AFPDS data to it.

Hope this helps.

/Paul
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Paul Tykodi, Technical Director                 E-mail: pault@praim.com
Praim Inc.                                           Tel: 603-431-0606
140 Congress St., #2                                Fax: 603-436-6432
Portsmouth, NH  03801-4019


Date:   Thu, 4 Jun 1998 04:23:42 +0000
From:   "NORBERT GROENE (GIS)" <Norbert_Groene@GISH.DE>
Subject:        SAP R/3 on AS/400 and AFP-Printing

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Hello,

anyone out there familiar with SAP R/3 on AS/400 ?
I face a problem in printing from SAP to an AS/400 OutQ using the IBMEPF-Driver 
in SAP. The Spoolfile is created, but it cannot be printed, as soon as I start 
the print, it will be put on hold with a message in QSYSOPR saying that it 
can't be printed.
As I'm not familiar with AFP, my first question is, whether the spoolfile is 
really AFP-Data it looks like this:
<data stream sample text removed>
Second what I've found out is, that all spoolfiles use QSYSPRT as printerfile, 
which defaults to devicetype *SCS.
So I changed for a test QSYSPRT (the only existing object on the system) to 
*AFPDS, but anyway the spoolfiles are created with *SCS.
Does anybody know how to change the Spoolfile in SAP from QSYSPRT and why are 
the spoolfiles created with *SCS even the printerfile is *AFPDS ?
Any help is appreciated.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards
Norbert Gröne

GIS Gesellschaft fuer    Norbert_Groene@GISH.DE
InformationsSysteme mbH    DEGISNGR at IBMMAIL

Tel. 0511-78643-16    0172-4151905
Hans-Boeckler-Str. 20    30851 Langenhagen
IBM GP-Nr. 373518
http://www.gish.de


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