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Re: Analyzing printer througput and usage

Help Systems <www.helpsystems.com> has ROBOT/CPA, which does this - and a lot more, of course. A lot of the data is handled with job accounting codes, as I recall. You need to set system value QACGLVL to *JOB and/or *PRINT in order to get resource usage journaled. See Work Management for more details.

HTH
Vern

At 04:37 PM 4/22/2004, you wrote:
Hi,

we print about 20.000+ delivery notes per day on about 40 laser printers. The spoolfiles
are distributed automatically (by the application) to the different printers, but only after
fixed organisational rules.

So I am thinking about doing an anlysis of printer usage/throughput on an hourly basis
to find potentional bottlenecks.

Has anybody done something similar or knows a tool?

I'm thinking about a matrix like

                 PRT01    PRT02    PRT03
10:00am     100/50    200/125   50/20
10:15am      130/20   250/300   70/0
10:03am

Where the first number (100) is the printed pages and the (50) is the new pages.

Any ideas,

Oliver



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