Re: Spool File Duplicating Again

Rick,

It looks like that was the problem. What I did was change the emulation 
the printer was running to an Epson FX which made it print faster. Being 
that the print job was finished before the writer was reset, it did not 
duplicate the spooled file. It was an odd error, but thanks for pointing 
me in the right direction.

Nick Franco





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Rick,

I think you may have found the problem! I did see a message in QSYSOPR 
with the following info:

                                        Additional Message Information 
 
 
        Message ID . . . . . . :                CPF3437 Severity . . . . . 

. . :           50 
        Message type . . . . . :                Information 
        Date sent  . . . . . . :   08/13/06      Time sent  . . . . . . : 
04:22:03 
 
        Message . . . . :   Writer MOPRNTEK stopped writing file ORD420 at 

record 0. 
        Cause . . . . . :   Writer MOPRNTEK stopped writing file ORD420 
number 1 job 
          362301/NIGHTUSR/ORD420MS created on system SXXXXXXX on 08/13/06 
02:59:10 
          after producing record 0 of the file. 
 
I think the spooled file was still printing when the writer was stopped 
and restarted at that time. Maybe the system generated the ASCII version 
when it saw this. I will let you all know what happens tonight. Many 
thanks Rick.

Nick Franco
Sika IT Dept - Lyndhurst
201-933-8800 Ext 6694
201-508-6694 Direct Dial





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We have been having a very strange problem that keeps getting worse. We 
have been having a spool file that gets created at night duplicate on a 
daily basis. The duplicate spool file gets created by user QSPLJOB. It 
shows on the outq as one page with an asterisk next to it. Well things 
have gotten stranger. A user ran this job this morning manually and sent 

it to the same printer. Guess what.....another duplicate got created 
except this time the user that created it was QPRTJOB. Any help with the 

issue is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Nick Franco 

I recall this happening quite frequently in a past life (at Create!form). 
Since that has been a while, and I have had little
to do with spooled files and remote queues, my memory is fading.

However, the duplicate spooled file, with 1 page and an asterisk indicates 


an ASCII spooled file.  This is generated by
the LPD driver if the spooled file cannot be printed on the remote 
printer.  This may be due to the printer being busy
(and not internally spooling) or the IP address giving you errors.  I 
believe, in a nutshell, the LPD driver will accept
the spooled file, translated into ASCII through a Host Translation, then, 
since it (LPD) cannot pass the spooled file
to the destination, it will place it back on the queue it came from to 
allow it to be attempted again later.

Check for messages on the queue, SYSOPR, on the writer itself and let us 
know what you find.

Regards,

Rick Renkema

"All great discoveries are made by mistake"

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