Re: TCP/IP printing

[Danny Mc? <question@xxxxxxx>]

Set the destination options in the outque description to:

    XAUTOQ  XAIX

The first one is for long reports and the second is for multiple copies.  Its 
been a year since it was described to me but these work!

Danny Mc?

Pete Hall wrote:

> At 10:10 09/23/1998 , Patricia Haberman wrote:
> >
> >     I seem to be having a problem printing large reports (larger than
> >     about 200 pages) to my LAN from *IP outqs.  Large reports remain in
> >     SND status and never print. OS level is V3R2
> >
> >     I increased the amount of memory available to *SPOOL.  Are there any
> >     PTFs that address this problem?
>
> We've been having a similar problem with an HP5SI *LAN device that we print 
>routings on (V4R2), and are current with PTFs, including all applicable 
>HIPERs. With 200+ pages, we seem to be getting memory overruns. Sometimes 
>pages in the middle of the run will have a heading but no body data, and 
>sometimes the job will print part way through and then stop. We've just added 
>an additional 32MB of ram to the printer. The jury is still out on whether it 
>helped or not, although today we had an incident of a print job going to PND 
>status and just staying there. I ended the writer, varied off the device, put 
>the entry on hold, and then tried to move it to another output queue, but 
>couldn't because it was "in use". This is the second time I've observed this 
>behavior, both times with the same device, once before and once after adding 
>the memory. The writer occasionally seems to gobble up an inordinate number of 
>CPU cycles transforming a print job also (usually one of the big ones). Althou!
> gh it doesn't seem to be an infinite loop, since it does eventually come back 
>down to earth, it's a little troubling. At this point I don't know if there is 
>a problem with the AS/400, with the device, the Jet Direct or possibly with 
>the LAN connection (it's on our least reliable TR segment on the far end of a 
>T1 connection, and it also services a NetWare queue). Life's getting a little 
>more complicated each day...
>
> Pete Hall
> peteh@inwave.com
> http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/
>
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