Re: Printer file overrides and crtpgm commands

Cyndi,

Since you are already hard coding your overrides and it sounds like you will
have to visit each program, it might be just as simple for you to write a
command where you pass the printer id and it returns the settings.  You would
then use those settings in a OVRPRTF within your CL.  A DLTOVR should get you
back to factory settings.

At least this way all of your override specifications are within a single
program and adding a new device with unique specifications is a single program
change.

As far as the CRTCLPGM (etc.) commands, you may be able to perform a CRTDUPOBJ
on the printer file used by the CRTxxx command into your own library and then
CHGPRTF to your settings.  This would work if the setting is global, if you want
it to be dynamic, you could write a wrapper for the CRTxxx command which calls
the command I described above, executes the CRTxxx command then changes settings
back again.

HTH,

James W. Kilgore
email@James-W-Kilgore.com

Cyndi Bradberry wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have for years used 14 x 8.5 inch green bar because it fits into a
> standard file drawer. Because of this we change every system upgrade all the
> system printer files to:
> <<snip>>
>
> Now we are using laser printers mainly with only a few things still going to
> greenbar, and most of those have the overrides hard-coded. I also have to
> hard-code overrides to the laser printers usually to set things back to the
> default (IBM) settings.
>
> We will be going to V4R3 in the next two weeks and would like to leave the
> system printerfiles at the system defaults. Program generated output we can
> handle thru overrides. What we cannot figure out is how to put overrides on
> the crtclpgm (etc) commands. Is there a way or are we just stuck with our
> current confused system?
>
> TIA,
>
> Cyndi Bradberry
> Idaho Housing and Finance Association
> Boise, Idaho
>  <<Cyndi Bradberry (E-mail).vcf>>

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