Re: Default to printer drawer 3 in WSCST requires rocket science

[daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Dan,

Fear not, it is possible and you are on the right track.  I went through
the same confusion awhile back when I wanted to set up our networked copier
as a printer.  It was always pulling from drawer #1 but I wanted drawer #3
which was high capacity.

There may be a better way but I believe what I ended up doing was changing
the value of the data on the DWRSLT.  In my case DRAWER#2 corresponded to
the 3rd physical drawer so I just took the value of the DATA line and
assigned it to the PAPER and DRAWER1 entries.  Then just create the WCST
object and reference it in the WSCST attribute of the remote output queue.

:DWRSLT
  DRAWER=PAPER
  DATA ='1B266C3748'X.
:DWRSLT
  DRAWER=ENVELOPE
  DATA ='1B266C3668314F'X.
:DWRSLT
  DRAWER=DRAWER1
  DATA ='1B266C3748'X.
:DWRSLT
  DRAWER=DRAWER2
  DATA ='1B266C3448'X.


Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




                                                                                
                                 
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Any rocket scientists out there?  I have searched the archives and googled.
I have downloaded the Workstation Customization Programming manual and the
IBM AS/400 Printing IV redbook.  All I want to do is to have our prints to
Savin 9935DPE laser to always use paper from drawer #3.  That doesn't seem
to unreasonable, does it?  The first three drawers all have 8.5x11 paper,
same orientation, but the first two drawers hold colored paper for faxes,
and drawer 3 holds white paper for copying and normal printing.  (FYI,
drawer 4 holds 11x17.)

A little background: I created a remote outq via
CRTOUTQ OUTQ(QUSRSYS/PRT49IP) RMTSYS(*INTNETADR) RMTPRTQ(QUSER)
    AUTOSTRWTR(1) CNNTYPE(*IP) DESTTYPE(*OTHER) TRANSFORM(*YES)
    MFRTYPMDL(*HP5SI) INTNETADR('172.16.100.212')

(I did find IBM documentation that indicated to use *HP5SI for this
printer.)
I note that there are no drawer options here.  Do some research, and it
appears that I need to customize the *HP5SI workstation customization
object.  I download those two books, scan for drawer, find DWRSLT & DWRNBR.
Can't use DWRSLT because it is limited to drawer #1 or #2, and I need
drawer
#3, so DWRNBR is required.  So here's where the "rocket scientist" kicks
in:

Selecting Paper Drawer Number (DWRNBR) Tag
  The DWRNBR (select paper drawer number) tag selects the
  printer paper drawer.  The drawer number is a variable
  in the ASCII control sequence. This tag is only used if
  the drawer number is greater than two (2). The syntax
  for this tag is:
    :DWRNBR
       VAROFFSET = variable offset in control sequence
       VARLEN = variable length
       VARTYPE = HIGHLOW|LOWHIGH|CHRDEC|CHRHEX|
       DATA = ASCII control sequence.

I have omitted the descriptions for the parameters.  It is greek anyway.
No
clues are given for the ASCII control sequence codes.  FWIW, I found this
reference on page 175 in the OS/400 Workstation Customization Programming
V4R3 manual.

tia,
db

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