Re: IBM i printing options for working from home users

Well...

You could do an initial pgm that determines where the user is signed on
at and chgjob, ovrprtf, etc., accordingly based on a user or
table...probably have to have pgm adopt qsecofr auth....

Does the user have cmd line access? If so a little OJT to show them how
to wrkjob and move splf's around...

The remote emulation would hopefully support a locally attache device
that you could assign a static ID to...I've worked with many that do and
I think even PC Support(insert current name here) supports it as well...

On 2021-04-12 09:44, Darren Strong wrote:

For me, I used the Infoprint server thing, but, we have an exit program setup in WRKPSFCFG that lets us have one OUTQ for the organization. IBM improved things a bit after we wrote all that, so if you don't want to go through that method, a CPYSPLF can also be sent to a PDF stream file, that could be sent to a shared IFS drive. On that method, you could also setup a DTAQ to an OUTQ that automatically grabs stuff from an OUTQ, does a CPYSPLF, and then emails it to the spool owner, or however else you want to figure out who it should go to.

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We have employees working from home using a thin client with a locally attached USB printer.
1) What various options are there to connect/configure this printer to print from.
2) Must all printing go to an outq. If yes, then I see us creating personal outqs for these users.
3) This would then also require changing their userprofile to point to this new outq.
4) This creates a 2nd problem. On days where the employee is back in the office, they would need to print to their previously configured department printer.

Another option we are doing is configuring an InfoPrintWriter ( WRKPSFCFG) with a wild card PDFMAPE that would email any spoolfile in a released status to themselves.
This requires a separate config and port for each user, and the ability for users to locate and move the desired spoolfile, (not always an easy task) and that's if they have the authority to do so.

What are others in the group doing for working from home printing options?

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