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  • Subject: Facsimile/400 IBMers?
  • From: "William A.(Tony) Corbett" <corbett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:50:50 -0800
  • Organization: AS/Resources, Inc.

I hope someone from IBM will check this out for me...a problem and a question
1. The Fax/400 licensed programs have a bug (or at least on the AS400, it's a bug, on Windows, it would be normal)
When the fax sybsystem is ended without first ending fax support, something gets corrupted, causing the fax status to not be updated (from "sending" to "complete" or "error").  I believe this is because it uses data areas.
The subsystem should be OK when ended with ENDSBS, but it's not.
THIS IS A BUG ON THE AS400...
Use pf's instead, or something so that this will not be a problem.  This is very UN-AS/400-like behavior!!

2.  When using the SBMFAX command, does it really submit (as the name implies)?  I ask because I had two lines connected, a process took 20 hours.  I connected 6 more lines (for a total of 8), the same process still took 20 hours.  I was expecting 5 or 6.  The controllers (Faxd01-faxd04) were being used, ie., the job was rotating through the controllers.
The job creates a spool file for each customer, using a CL driver to read through the customer file, call the program, sbmfax, and loop back for another read.
The spool files date/times were dispersed evenly through the run, as though the CL had waited for the submissioin before looping back and reading another customer.  This job runs in about 20 minutes without the sbmfax.    I expected the job to run to competion in 20 minutes, then take 4-6 hours to fax out the spoolfiles, simultaneously sending over all 8 lines.  What am I doing wrong or misunderstanding??
Should I be doing SBMJOB(SBMFAX(..)) to a fax400-dedicated jobq??  seems redundant.

Thanks for your help.
--
William A.(Tony) Corbett
mailto: corbett@cbt400.com
http://www.asresources.com
http://www.cbt400.com
 


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