Re: Print from a PC to iSeries output queue

Mike

Dan is working on an LPR solution. I used a printer share of an iSeries output queue, which works pretty well.

You need to go into NetServer through iSeries Access Navigator, then create a new printer share. For printer driver, you could use "IBM SCS 3812" if you installed the SCS drivers - this is a selective setup, I think, try selective setup from your iSeries Access program group.

Once you create that share, you can use it as a network printer in Windows. Ba-da-boom!!

It took a while to wend my way through various paths - there is a NetServer manual that I did not look at but is supposed to have information. I used the User's Guide available if installed from iSeries Access program group.

HTH
Vern

Mike Cunningham wrote:

Success! (almost). Thanks to a few replies to my post I have setup NetServer to share a printer that I have configure in Windows as a printer and I can print to that printer from Windows and the file shows up in the iSeries output queue. I can move the spool file and send it to the printer. What I can't do is a CPYSPLF to a database file :( which is what I need to do next. If I setup the NetServer printer share with auto I get an ASCII spool file that I can't display or copy. If I change the printer share and specify SNA (aka SCS) I get a spool file I can display but it is all garbage (probably ascii characters displayed as ebcdic). There is one setting on NetServer printer share that I can't figure out what to enter. The Printer Driver. All documentation I can find points me to a directory in the IFS that I do not have. Qca400\Win32\Install\Printer I have Qca400 but not Win32 and below.
Anyone have any thoughts on where I might look next?
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DeLong, Eric
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 10:36 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Print from a PC to iSeries output queue

Mike,
Just go into navigator and define a print share. This lets you install
printer drivers on your PC that use your midrange as a windows print
server.

-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Cunningham
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 7:42 AM
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Subject: Print from a PC to iSeries output queue

Is it possible to setup a Windows PC so it has a printer that would
print to an iSeries output queue? And then use whatever iSeries
utilities there are to manage that spool file? Might be move it to a
queue attached to a remote laser printer and print it, might be copy the
spool file to a database file and process it with my own application,
might be print it to a local attached printer. Would this be something
IPP printing would handle? If so I think I can figure out the server
side for setup of IPP but what would I need to do on the PC side to
setup a Windows printer that points to the IPP device?