RE: Substituting a Defunct Printer

Charles,

The point of the exercise is to re-route any output going to MW as automagically as possible so that, in case I missed any OCL Printer statements, OVRPRTF commands or (slightly harder to find) USROPN's with program invoked OVRPRTF's.

This is (or, rather, was) a PC5250 emulated printer. I looked at the CHGDEVORT command, but it uses DEVD as the "key". I had looked at this command earlier, but didn't see anything there that would help. Is there another command that you are talking about as regards your last point?

Thanks.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wilt, Charles
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 8:01 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Substituting a Defunct Printer

Unfortunately, there's never been a "built-in" to do this.

You can have the same output queue feed two printers, but you can't have the same printer feed by
multiple output queues.

What you can do, is change queue MW do be a remote output queue that points to queue MX on the local
system.

Another option, attach a data queue to the MW output queue along with a NEP that moves spool files to
MX.

Lastly, assuming that MW is a network printer, you can simply change the DEVD of MX to point to the
same network printer. Unlike twinax devices, you can have multiple DEVD for same network printer as
long as the DEVDs don't have INACTTMR(*NOMAX) specified. (The default is *ATTACH == *SEC15)


HTH,

Charles Wilt
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 8:24 AM
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Subject: RE: Substituting a Defunct Printer

First, it gives me an error: CPF3313 - Writer MW not active nor on job
queue. Which, of course, it isn't.

Second, I thought that this is how one balances output between printers.
I.e., assigning the same out queue to both printers, though I admit I have
never tried it. Sort of like the BALPRINT command on the /36.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 7:07 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Substituting a Defunct Printer

Does the CHGWTR command solve this for you?
CHGWTR WTR(MW) OUTQ(MX)

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 6:53 AM
To: Midrange-L (midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: Substituting a Defunct Printer

I have a print device description defined (MW), but the printer has long
since gone south. I know one can balance printing between multiple
printers
by defining the same out queue for them.

However, I cannot find or figure out a way to tell the system, "Hey, when
you get a report for MW, just print it on MX." Is there a way to
automatically do that?

I've already encountered one procedure that has the printer MW defined as
the output. Since the configuration still exists, it didn't cause the
procedure to crash and burn, but the user had one heck of a problem
finding
their report.

Thanks.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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