Re: LPR from AS/400 to VSE

[pault@xxxxxxxxx (Paul Tykodi)]

Dear Scotty,

Having not seen your AS/400 Remote Output Queue definition, my guess would be 
that you have the OUTQ parameter Host Print Transform (also known as Transform 
SCS to ASCII) set to *NO because you are sending data to another EBCDIC based 
system (Destination parameter set to *OTHER).

This can easily cause the problem you are describing because the OS/400 system 
uses a number of SCS control commands for line printers that are not supported 
by any mainframe operating system.

My suggestion would be the following. Get document 7995114 "Using TCP/IP Remote 
Print Writers with Applications Requiring a Device Description" from the AS/400 
Tech Support web site. Follow the instructions in this document to create a 
3287 (not 3812 model 1 as in the example) virtual printer to be attached to 
your remote output queue. If you are lucky, this will cause the OS/400 
operating system to format your spool files using only the SCS commands 
understood by the VSE operating system.

The path to the document referenced above is as follows:

The web URL is http://www.as400service.ibm.com .

>From the blue bar on the left of the screen, click on Tech Info + Databases. 
>Next Choose Software Knowledge Base. Scroll through the topics to locate Print 
>and click on this item. Under the sub-topic Network Attached Printers - 
>General, you will find the article "Using TCP/IP Remote Print Writers with 
>Applications Requiring a Device Description".

HTH

/Paul
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Paul Tykodi, Technical Director                 E-mail: pault@praim.com
Praim Inc.                                           Tel: 603-431-0606
140 Congress St., #2                                Fax: 603-436-6432
Portsmouth, NH  03801-4019


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Date:   Wed, 07 Jul 1999 10:47:05 -0400
From:   Scotty Muir <scottymu@penn.com>
Subject:        LPR from AS/400 to VSE

Hi All,
I am currently trying to print a report using the LPR function from
TCP/IP on an AS/400 to the 6262-14 printer on my VSE/ESA 2.2.0
mainframe. Using TCP/IP for VSE(beta K) my mainframe and the AS/400
involved are both part of the same Ethernet/Token Ring LAN.  My TCP/IP
Host Table Entry on the AS/400 has been setup and I can reach the
mainframe printer. However, when I print to the mainframe printer I get
the printout I am looking for, but unfortunately a three-page report
generates 18 pages in the power queue. Most of the garbage pages are
just a few characters on an entire page either before the first page or
between pages. I assume this is something dealing with Carriage Control,
but I am not sure. 
Does anyone out there have something similar working? Any suggestions
what I need to do to  accomplish this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Scotty   
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William(Scotty) D. Muir
Senior Systems Programmer
The Triangle Group 
DuBois, PA. 15801


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