Re: Remote printers are dropping with V4R5

Hey, that's fun :
my line with the hyperlink to the reference has been dropped when I posted
my reply through gmane... !!!

Original post was beginning that way (from my Send Items box):

>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.

>>>>>> missing line
>From  p177 of http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG242160.html
>>>>>> end of missing section

>"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."

etc...



----- Original Message -----
From: "OlivierC" <oc@asp-re.com>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.midrange
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 3:20 PM
Subject: 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
>