Bar Code check and Mainfrane equivalents

[Dan Rasch <drasch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When recently asked to modify a print file with bar codes (the type the
post office uses, called PostNet) - the print file had this error message:

WRITER PRINT1 found bar code check

device PRINT1 detected an IPDS bar code command that was not allowed or
not supported by the printer.  The device error code is 041100.

The problem is not the printer, as another bar code job is working fine.
We tried to look at the printfile data using CPYSPLF but that is not
allowed for printfiles with barcode data.  Does anyone know how to debug
this problem?  One hint I can add is that the barcode was expanded from a
5 char zip code to ZIP+4.  I suspected it was stepping on another field
within the line, so I removed all other fields and still had the error.

I am pursuing this mail group as opposed to a call to IBM because my
current project site has a new manager with a Mainframe background.  He is
too busy asking 3.38 million questions to get into a major debugging
session with Big Blue.  I seem to remember a Mainframe to Midrange book
some time back that gave equivalents to Mainframe acronyms (i.e. this
manager asked me if logical files were an equivalent to 'access key paths'
or something of that nature on the mainframe, and it seemed like an
equivalent to me).  Such a reference book would give him a little
independence, and me a chance to get work done (although they are not
complaining about the hours I bill..... yet).

TIA...

Dan Rasch - because if the human species concentrated on the really 
important things in life, there would be a shortage of fishing poles!


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