Re: how to name print queues with the same in different facilities -- MIDRANGE-L

All device description names must be unique. You don't get to select the library when you create them, they're all in QSYS.

Having said that, the STRPRTWTR command lets you name the output queue that feeds a printer. The default is *DEV, but here is no reason not to use whatever you want. And you CAN specify the library there. But you would need to change, probably, the startup program, if your writers start automatically. And you would need to put in a hard-coded value in the STRPRTWTR command when writers end.

I think the maintenance headache mitigates against doing this.

HTH
Vern

At 03:57 PM 11/15/2004, you wrote:

We have one AS/400 serving multiple remote sites.

We have always named print queues

FL_P1 for the first printer in Florida,

FL_P2 for the second printer in Florida;

NY_P1 for the first printer in New York,

etc.

Is there an easy way to name the first printer in each location P1, and have
the user's library list find the P1 in their local facility?  It would have
to find the proper OUTQ, Printer, and output writer.

I have been told this doesnt work so well because we would have to set up
the OUTQ, Printer, and output writer in different libraries.

Is there an easy way to accomplish this?  Or is it best to have the facility
name as part of each printer name?

TIA
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