Re: Held OUTQ

["Dare @ Work" <oludare@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You're not a moron at all, I learnt about it my self in 98 and I've been on
the system since late 90.  That is the beauty of the system in my opinion,
there is just not one way to do things.

Dare

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@dilgardfoods.com>
To: "Midrange Mailing List" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:20 AM
Subject: Held OUTQ


> I learned a new one today.
>
> One of our print devices (P6) was not printing.  WRKWTR showed it
> started and released properly.  I put an 8 in front of it to show the
> OUTQ.  The spool files were listed normally.  Didn't understand what was
> happening.
>
> Then I noticed at the top of the screen it said:
>
> Status:   HLD/WTR
>
> But the writer wasn't held.  I couldn't release it.  I could hold it,
> then release it, but it still showed held.  Stopped and started the
> writer.  No good.  Power cycled the printer.  No luck.  Was about ready
> to delete/recreate the device description thinking it was damaged, but I
> decided to do a WRKOUTQ *ALL first.  Lo and behold, it showed the _OUTQ_
> as held.  I didn't know you could do that.  Put a 6 in front of it to
> release it and away it went.
>
> I've been using an AS/400 since almost it's inception.  I didn't know
> until today that an OUTQ could be held/released independantly of the
> writer.  The rest of you are probably thinking what a moron <g>.  I
> wonder who held it and why.
>
> Learn something new every day.
>
> --
> -Jeff
>
> The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily
> the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.
>
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