Re: Analyzing printer througput and usage

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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