RE: Printer configuration problem

[Patpong Watwanitchakorn <patpong.w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

1. Is Q7 assigned for a default system printer? ...  see QSYSVAL/QPRTDEV ...
2. Is Q7 hard coded for OUTQ/Printer in your program(s) such as CL?
3. Another is that check out the correction of printer DEVICE vs OUTQ vs
WRITER.

HTH 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nan pat [SMTP:seedrp@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wed 2 February 2000 2:50 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Printer configuration problem
> 
> 
> Hello
> 
> 
> We had a strange problem today regarding the printers .
> 
> We  had a printer device Q7 which we deleted  and on the same port and 
> address we configuered a workstaion.
> 
> However , After that , to our surprise , we found that all the print batch
> 
> jobs had a message on qsysopr , stating that the print device Q7 (the 
> printer device we deleted) not found.However , all the batch print jobs
> are 
> not supposed and assigned  to go to q7 .Infact the q7 printer was hardly 
> used.
> 
> For your information we have P8 , P7 and Q5  printers on different ports
> on 
> which the the spool files shd have gone.Unfortunately one of the printer
> ie 
> P8 also went wrong at the same time.I doubt it has anything to do with 
> configuration.We checked the printer and I think it is gone wrong wiht the
> 
> hardware side.
> 
> To solve it immed , what we did was to just create a dummy device 
> discription of q7 , and then all went smooth and all the spool files went
> to 
> their respective outq.
> 
> 
> 
> 1> But  my question is why did the batch job take Q7  printer when it is
> not 
> assigned to it by any way ?
> 
> 2> Even if the P8 printer went bad , the spool file should have come to
> the 
> outq assigned to the p8  since the devd of p8 was ok since we did not have
> 
> any message stating that devd is affected.
> 
> 3> and why other spool files which were not meant to go on P7 and Q5 were 
> affected.
> 
> 
> Your feed bcak on this will be of immense help
> 
> 
> dajiba
> 
> 
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