RE: Remote Outq problem of skipping lines

We had a similar problem, a customer was sending us a spool file from
their Iseries, using a RMTOUTQ.  It would show up on our system, and it
would print too many lines.  The spool file attributes showed a RECORD
LENGTH of 256.  On his system, it was 198.

Everything we printed from our system was fine.

We finally came up with a hack.  Put a CLP to process every spool file
that showed in the outq, it basically did a CPYSPLF to a data base file,
then back to QSYSPRT, with the record length set to 198.  We get a
warning message that the data was truncated, but it prints fine.


Art Tostaine, Jr.
CCA, Inc.
Jackson, NJ 08527


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Berman
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 8:00 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
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