Re: Remote printers are dropping with V4R5

Just from my limited experience on a previous case and from the IBM Redbook:

Remote outq  (LPR-LPD) way requires a lot of memory for Host Print Transform
(EBCDIC/ASCII conversion), specially for big files and TCP/IP connection may
reach its time-out before completion when not enough power is allocated.

"Note: When using TCP/IP LPR-LPD and the host print transform function, we
recommend that the subsystem QSPL has a minimum size of 6 MB."

Change of OS/400 version may have reduce what is available in memory pool
(WRKSHRPOOL ==> *SPOOL).

Suggestions to try:
- more memory pre-allocated for *SPOOL (if avalaible);
- and/or a higher time-out parameter probably on the printer IP box (the
easiest solution I used);
- and/or the use of the following "destination option" in the CRTOUTQ (never
tried personnally but sound interesting: from the same reference as above):
.  XAUTOQ
"If the connection to the remote system times out during transformation of
the spooled file into ASCII by the host print transform, with this option,
the transformed spooled file is sent back to the same output queue using the
AS/400 LPD server rather than failing with a timeout error. The transformed
spooled file name is modified to be unique. Then, since the spooled file is
already in ASCII, it is sent directly to the target printer without any
transformation and avoids a timeout."

HTH,

Olivier
Montreal


"Kellems, Cary" <cary.kellems=t/p/90W5L9KXzmuOJsdVMQ@public.gmane.org> wrote
in message A0B1DEF39F46D51196460040AA4977B930C3AE@NMCHQT16">news:A0B1DEF39F46D51196460040AA4977B930C3AE@NMCHQT16...
>
> We are upgrading various AS/400 model 270 from V4R2 to V4R5.  Attached are
> Lexmark printers (1625-2355) via Ethernet.  We are using remote outq for
> these printers.  With V4R2 everything was working fine, with only the rare
> "dropping".  But with the upgrade to V4R5 we are experiencing a much
higher
> rate of failure(where the spools file go on hold and the writer ends) on
> printers that are remote (not in the same building) to the AS/400.
>
> Any idea on what I could check or settings I could tweak would be
> appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks
> Cary Kellems
>
>
>
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