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Printing from one outq to two printers
I've foudn that using a printer pool in SAP gives the best/easiest results. Anon-AS400 guru can
also change them if need be. I use the pools on a daily basis.
Andy
--- Steve Chapman <SChapmanZc...> wrote:
> Mike,
> I don't know if there is an easier way, or a better way, but you can print
> from one outq to multiple printers by using the native OS/400 print writers.
> See the command STRPRTWTR's help text, and you will see that you can have up
> to 10 writer jobs pulling files from one OUTQ, with each writer sending to a
> different print device.
>
> However, contrary to the way we normally set up OS/400 outqs for SAP
> (essentially as LPR to an LPD) using "remote writers", the "print writer"
> requires an OS/400 device description for the printer device. I was curious
> about setting up a print writer for an ascii printer on TCP/IP, so I worked
> with the parameters until I came up with something that works in our test
> environment.
>
> The source system (SAP, for instance) has the printer defined as a HPLJ4.
> The actual network printer is an IBM 4317, which handles HPLJ4 data streams
> just fine. I found that none of the existing TCP/IP ports that were open on
> the embedded print server in my printer would process for the AS/400 print
> writer, so I opened a new port on the printer to service my AS400 device
> writer. I selected a free port number on the printer (5006) and configured a
> new service called "sdctest". (I'm afraid I don't know enough about what I
> am doing to know why, or to know better. I also don't know whether you will
> find this step necessary for your Genicom printer, or if can use a
> predefined service port.) To get smarter than this, see section 4,
> especially chapter 13 of IBM manual SC41-5713, "Printer Device Programming."
>
> This is my AS400 printer device description:
> Device description . . . . . . . . : DEVD SDCTEST
> Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : OPTION *BASIC
> Category of device . . . . . . . . : *PRT
>
> Device class . . . . . . . . . . . : DEVCLS *LAN
> Device type . . . . . . . . . . . : TYPE 3812
> Device model . . . . . . . . . . . : MODEL 1
> LAN attachment . . . . . . . . . . : LANATTACH *IP
> Port number . . . . . . . . . . . : PORT 5006
> Physical attachment . . . . . . . : ATTACH *DIRECT
> Online at IPL . . . . . . . . . . : ONLINE *YES
> Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : FONT
> Identifier . . . . . . . . . . . : 11
> Point size . . . . . . . . . . . : *NONE
> Form feed . . . . . . . . . . . . : FORMFEED *AUTOCUT
> Separator drawer . . . . . . . . . : SEPDRAWER *FILE
> Separator program . . . . . . . . : SEPPGM *NONE
> Printer error message . . . . . . : PRTERRMSG *INQ
> Message queue . . . . . . . . . . : MSGQ STEVEC
> Library . . . . . . . . . . . . : *LIBL
> Current message queue . . . . . . : STEVEC
> Library . . . . . . . . . . . . : QUSRSYS
> Activation timer . . . . . . . . . : ACTTMR 170
> Inactivity timer . . . . . . . . . : INACTTMR 30
> Host print transform . . . . . . . : TRANSFORM *YES
> Manufacturer type and model . . . : MFRTYPMDL *IBM4317
> Paper source 1 . . . . . . . . . . : PPRSRC1 *LETTER
> Paper source 2 . . . . . . . . . . : PPRSRC2 *LETTER
> Envelope source . . . . . . . . . : ENVELOPE *NUMBER10
> ASCII code page 899 support . . . : ASCII899 *NO
> Image configuration . . . . . . . : IMGCFG *NONE
> Character identifier . . . . . . . : CHRID *SYSVAL
> Remote location . . . . . . . . . : RMTLOCNAME
> Name or address . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.115
> Workstation customizing object . . : WSCST *NONE
> User-defined object . . . . . . . : USRDFNOBJ *NONE
> Object type . . . . . . . . . . : *NONE
> Data transform program . . . . . . : USRDTATFM *NONE
> System driver program . . . . . . : SYSDRVPGM *IBMPJLDRV
> Allocated to:
> Job name . . . . . . . . . . . . . : SDCTEST
> User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : QSPLJOB
> Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 450211
> Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : TEXT Test ascii printer
>
> After you have successfully configured two (or more) AS400 printer devices,
> you can start the writer jobs to draw from the same outq.
>
> I do not have production experience with this arrangement, but it seems
> feasible for your situation.
>
> Steve Chapman
> California Steel Industries, Inc.
> .
>
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