RE: Remote Outq problem of skipping lines

You must forgive my broad brush-strokes on this, I am not a wondoze
specialist.

There was a windows-2000-server system on the same (ethernet) network/subnet
as my iSeries server, it was configured to be the print-server for the
office and had many printer queues.  I configured the iSeries remote outq's
with the print-server's IP address and the appropriate queue name at the
server.

The effects of sending it via the print-server were: 
a)      the contention for the use of the printer was managed by the server
- previously contention had caused the iSeries outq to freeze
b)      the 'send' from the iSeries to the print-server was much quicker,
especially noticeable for long reports, and resulted in no data loss
c)      the print-data-stream flow control between the print-server and the
printer handled the 'printer memory full' condition, again no data loss.

Direct printing iSeries to printer using rmtoutq was an effective
quick-and-dirty solution for low volume (ppm) printers, and where the
reports were always just a few pages.

Kind regards,

Jeffrey E. Bull
IBM iSeries Pre & Post Sales Consultant

IBM Certified Systems Expert, iSeries Technical Solutions
IBM Certified Systems Specialist, AS/400 System Administration

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Berman [mailto:mikeba777@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 July 2004 13:36
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Remote Outq problem of skipping lines


Jeff, can you tell me more about this windows based print server? Mike

Jeff Bull <Jeff.Bull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:It may be that you have a flow
control problem. I was using an IP remote
outq, from the iSeries straight to the printer - when the printer memory was
full, the data kept coming. On large prints, on occasions we lost many
pages. The resolution was to sent it to the windows-based print server,
this respooled the data to disk and handles the print-data stream flow
control in a more secure fashion.

Kind regards,

Jeffrey E. Bull
IBM iSeries Pre & Post Sales Consultant

IBM Certified Systems Expert, iSeries Technical Solutions
IBM Certified Systems Specialist, AS/400 System Administration

tel: +44 [0] 149 454 9533 swb: +44 [0] 149 454 9400
mbl: +44 [0] 786 750 4961 fax: +44 [0] 149 454 9454
web: http://www.icm-computer.co.uk

ICM Computer Group PLC, Latimer Square, White Lion Road, Amersham, Bucks,
HP7 9JQ, UK


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Kohlndorfer [mailto:kohlnbob@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 July 2004 13:05
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Remote Outq problem of skipping lines


Hi Mike,

Have you tried checking the spool file with DSPSPLF and verifying what lines
are printing?
The upper right hand corner of the spool file display shows the page / line
number that are in the spool file.
Does what is in the spool file agree with what you are expecting as far as
last line on each page?

Bob Kohlndorfer
Unbeaten Path International

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Berman" 
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" 
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 6:59 PM
Subject: Remote Outq problem of skipping lines


I have created a remote outq description for an IBM 6400 printer. It is not
*LAN or PRTLAN description, because the 6400 has its own network card. So
the emulation is PROPRINTER ETHERNET. It prints the first page of the pick
tickets, but then for the subsequent pages, it skips some lines, rendering
the printout useless. The overflow line of the print file, is 60, yet the
actual lines printed are 50. So the creating RPG program, has an OVRPRTF,
that does some adjusting to the Overflow line. However, I am not sure if
this is the problem or not. So before I tear into the spaghetti code, Do you
think the problem is located w. the printer or not. Mike



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