Re: A dumb *S36 question - printer problem

Put a call into the operations staff in Montreal, ans the tird-party
people who did the apply. This is Friday 5:30 pm, I will try my damndest
to get you the info Monday.
Ken
There is a new operator there, and he's not oo familiar with /400

Jerome Draper wrote:
>
> Anybody come up with the mentioned PTF reference.
>
> My S36 program prints one spool item for each PO (why? who knows?).  When I
> print them to P4, a S36 printer on stop, they all end up in the S36 spool as
> completed reports.  When I print them to P9, a "mapped" S36 printer, they
> whoosh to the "mapped" outq on the AS400.  Interesting is that the first
> whatever number of PO's get stuck in "OPN" status and the last and final PO
> always prints fine.  The "OPN" PO's are stuck at 0 pages forever.  The
> workaround is to print them to P4 and then do a CHANGE ID,P9,P4 to whoosh
> them to the outq on the AS400 side where the print perfectly.
>
> Jerry
>
> Jerome Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: ken shields <kjs@idirect.com>
> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 2:39 PM
> Subject: Re: A dumb *S36 question - printer problem
>
> > Yes, the operator at Montreal was not in to-day , so I couldn't get the
> > PTF reference.
> > I will send this message to my office, and will reply with it asap.
> > In the meantime, if you have a service agreement with IBM , let them
> > know what your problem is, they might be able to send it Purolator
> > quicker than me.
> > Ken
> >
> > "Barry L. Kline" wrote:
> > >
> > > ken shields wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Had a similar problem on a 170, several moons ago.
> > > > Problem was the rpg LR logic would not clos the mapped outq file.
> > > > There was a special patch supplied by IBM, to fix the problem.
> > > > The office is in Montreal, so I don't have the patch reference.
> > > > Will try to get it for you.
> > > > Ken
> > > >
> > >
> > > This is interesting.  I have a different problem but one related to
> > > mapped outqs. There are some jobs created in sbs QSYSWRK that service
> > > the mapped output queues. When the M36 machine is brought down
> > > properly, these jobs sometimes never end.  A WRKACTJOB SBS(QSYSWRK)
> > > shows them in the 'end' status but they never go away.  You can wait
> > > 'til hell freezes over and they won't go.  Should you get impatient
> > > and issue a PWRDWNSYS *IMMED RESTART(*YES) you'll have the pleasure of
> > > dealing with an OS/400 ABEND, which will cause the System Attention
> > > light to come on.  The subsequent IPL needs to be done manually and
> > > takes a painfully long time.  My solution so far has been to wait 10
> > > minutes, then issue a ENDJOBABN command against each of the offending
> > > jobs before proceeding with system backup, etc.
> > >
> > > Has anyone in this thread heard of this before.  Ken, is this problem
> > > affected by the PTF you mentioned?
> > >
> > > Barry
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