RE: Changing outq on broken printer

What I've done in cases like this is make PRT01 a remote outq pointing
to PRT02. Easy to flip back when the printer is fixed.

Bryan_Burns@xxxxxxxxxxxx 09/22/2009 11:31:32 AM >>>

I changed the address in the DEVD of the broken printer to the address
of a working printer and it works well so far. Thanks for a great
suggestion and thanks to Chris and Chuck for their suggestions.

Bryan Burns
iSeries Specialist
ECHO, Incorporated
Lake Zurich, Illinois

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:10 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Changing outq on broken printer

Amazingly, the i doesn't support this natively.

You can easily have multiple printers pulling from a single queue, but
you can't (ie. with twinax*) have a printer pull from multiple queues.
thus, no native printer "rerouting".

Assuming you've got networked attached printers however, as long as
you've got your DEVD configure to share the connection ( INACTTMR <>
*NOMAX and ACTTMR >= 170) then simply changing the DEVD of the
broken printer to the name/ip address of the working printer should
work in most cases. Though you might need to adjust the ACTTMR value,
depending on how busy the printers are.

If the printers are really busy, such that INACTTMR is not hit before
ACTTMR runs out. You can reconfigure the broken printers OUTQ to be a
RMTOUTQ that points to the working printers OUTQ.

Another option, attach a data queue to the broken printer's queue and
have a program that moves spool files from one queue to another.

Good luck!
Charles


On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Burns, Bryan
<Bryan_Burns@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

PRT01 doesn't work and I want to reroute PRT01 spooled files to PRT02.

What do I need to change to do this without messing up the PRT02
outqueue at the same time?

Bryan Burns
iSeries Specialist
ECHO, Incorporated
Lake Zurich, Illinois

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