Re: "S/36 Printer ID" changed?

[broehmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Justin,
With regard to how it "disappeared" or "changed", I think I 
remember that if the device is changed to say a different
model or it moved to a different line (read: hard wired controller port) 
it can mess with the S36 assignment. There's also a limit
to the number of 2 character representations to devices so
if you run over that number then you can cause assignment
problems.  If I'm not remembering correctly, I apologize but it
has been a long time since we've had S36 issues like that.






From:   Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:     "MIDRANGE-L (midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx)" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   11/01/2016 11:02 AM
Subject:        "S/36 Printer ID" changed?
Sent by:        "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



We have two identical IPDS band printers (P3 & P5) attached via Ethernet. 
Starting today, we're seeing S/36 errors saying "Printer P5 was not found 
on the system".  Thru the beauty of IBMi command naming standards, and 
command wildcards, I stumbled on to DSPS36 which shows me that S/36 uses 
different printer names than IBMi.  It shows that S/36 is now using a 
different name for that printer.

Two questions:

1.       How do I change it back?

2.       What caused it to change in the first place?


Thanks

Justin Taylor