It looks like the special value *DFT did the trick.
A GLS8903 127A
A BARCODE(DATAMATRIX 1 +
A (*DATAMATRIX *DFT 36))
A POSITION(3.3 9.1)
Now I am able to print a barcode with mixed case and a | pipe.
Bill and Dan, thanks for the very useful input!
Best Regards
Wim
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V5R4 DDS Data Matrix spec calls for alternative-data-type of *USRDEF,
*AIMSTD and *UCCEAN with the default being *USRDEF.
There are also called ASCII, C40, TEXT, and BASE256. I think that it wants
to encode to C40 or TEXT and does bad things when it tries to fit a 127
mixed characters into a 36 x 36 matrix. Change 36 x 36 to *DFT and/or
force your data to be all upper or all lower case and you should have no
problem printing.
See this
http://www.idautomation.com/datamatrixfaq.html#Encoding_Modes
And look at the bottom of the web page for the size table.
Or if you prefer IBM's, look on physical page 76-79 in S544-3766-06 Bar
Code Object Content Architecture Reference
If you are still stuck, contact me and I'll test on other IPDS printers.
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This may be as far as I can go toward helping without dumping the print
stream.
You might check the device description of the printer and make sure it is
all coordinated with your printer. Auto-gen'd device descriptions are
sometimes wrong.
Is sysval QCCSID 37?
Contents of the MoDCA barcode tag generated by the print file may be
translated at a different point in the workflow than the rest of the text.
Your print file generates MoDCA AFP. The print writer uses the device
description to convert that stream to IPDS. The printer reads the IPDS and
rasterizes it to the paper. Anything can be a problem. IPDS is a
bi-directional data stream. I've heard of these things breaking when the
network blocked the back-channel.
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Thanks for the reply Dan,
Here is what I can find about code pages and CCSID's...
- the printer default code page is Int. Set 5 500
- the job's default code page is 37
- the printer file has *DEVD as character identifier
- the device character identifier is *SYSVAL
According to the manual, the system extracts the ccsid of the job that
generates the spool file and translates EBCDIC data to code page 500.
The printer then translates the data from code page 500 to the appropriate
ASCII code page.
Did I miss something?
FWIW, I get the same errors on V5R4.
Wim
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The message is that the printer refused to print the barcode. Most likely
due to a character that the barcode doesn't support. Datamatrix promises
to print any ASCII character. So somewhere the EBCDIC to ASCII is not
producing a valid ASCII character representation. IPDS is usually a EBCDIC
stream to the printer, but that depends on how your printer definition is
configured. In that case, printer should be doing whatever character
translation is necessary to produce the barcode. The printer firmware is
rasterizing the bitmap for the barcode and should know its own EBDCIC to
ASCII translation.
Examine the CCSID of your print file and see if that matches the CCSID the
printer expects. I'm guessing you are someplace where everything is not
37.
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Hi All,
I am trying to print a 2D Datamatrix Barcode with an IPDS printer
(infoprint 1552).
The data to print consists of address pieces seperated by a pipe.
If I only use upper case or lower case, numbers and spaces, the barcode
prints out fine.
If I combine upper and lower, or if I use a pipe or other characters like
comma, dot, slash, ampersand...
I get the following error:
Message ID . . . . . . : PQT3665, Bar Code Specification Check
exception.
Message ID . . . . . . : PQT3630, Sense data X'040C0100 DE000001
00000000 D6810000 00000000 00000001' was received
Here is the DDS code:
A GLS8902 127A
A BARCODE(DATAMATRIX 1 +
A (*DATAMATRIX 36 36))
A POSITION(3.3 0.6)
We are at v5r3.
Any idea why I can not print those characters?
Could it be a translation error?
Best Regards
Wim
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