Re: Held OUTQ

TMTOWTDI - There's more than one way to do it - the motto for Perl, the
language created by Larry Wall.

BTW, the HLD/WTR means that the outq is held and there is an active writer
attached.

I concur - no stupids living here.

Regards

At 08:39 AM 3/15/02 -0500, you wrote:
>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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