RE: Help - Weird error with TCP printing & HPT -- MIDRANGE-L

My memory is a little fuzzy, but I think this is the same thing that happens
to us on occasion (I think I've seen it about 5 or 6 times in the last two
years across our 60 or so remote outqs).  The first time it happened I THINK
ibm told me it was the result of the printer dropping it's connection.
Don't take me at my word, my memory is a little fuzzy... all I know is it
wasn't an application issue.

Hope that helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Larkin [mailto:blarkin@wt.net]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 10:47 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Help - Weird error with TCP printing & HPT


There are NO twinax attached printers. Funny thing, it prints just fine the
majority of the time. For
both my file and all others. Some days the problem will not appear, other
days it might pop up three
or four times.

This client does have support from IBM, so they are not on a per-call basis.
Manager just doesn't want
to call. believes that since I wrote the program, I should fix it. Of couse,
if they would set
SAVE(*YES) on the spool file that caused the problem, I might have a clue to
go on, but so far they
haven't been able to find the time to do that.

Bob

"Art Tostaine, Jr." wrote:

> Do you have an "old fashioned" twinax printer there?  If it prints on
another printer fine, your
> program is in the clear.
>
> That doesn't mean that you couldn't change your program to make it work.
Like removing the
> underline deal.
>
> All of those programs in your joblog that begin with "Q" are IBM's.  Why
can't you call?  You guys
> pay per call (like me)?
>
> Art Tostaine, Jr.
> CCA, Inc.
> Jackson, NJ 08527
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Bob Larkin
> Sent: Sunday, October 03, 1999 11:34 PM
> To: Midrange-L Mailing List
> Subject: Help - Weird error with TCP printing & HPT
>
> OK folks,
> I've got one that has me stumped. Printing to a remote writer through
> TCP, the printer appears to be printing fine. After a variety of print
> files are printed, an error occurs on the Host Print Transform of a
> spool file, and the spool file is placed on hold. At this point, any
> spool file in the output queue is placed on hold. The only way to
> correct the problem is to end the writer and restart it. At this point,
> ALL of the files will print, including the one that caused the problem
> (I think it is the one causing the problem) I have only seen joblogs of
> the problem, and each time it is the same spool file, but that may be
> misleading, because almost all of the printing for that printer is this
> one particular spool file.
>
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