RE: Is there a way to display spool files a writer has printed? -- MIDRANGE-L

Check the price tag. It it is high by $400-$600, the printer can probably
do IPDS.
If you have Lexmark printers, print the profile page, it will tell you if
it has IPDS, SCS, etc. HP probably the same kind of page, but the HP
stuff was all third-party.
Eventually someone will chime in about a printer "gatweway" that can do
IPDS to any printer.

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Tom Kreimer
Network Manager
Buckhorn Inc, Milford OH
(513)831-4403 x237

From:
Jerry Adams <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:
Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
04/16/2009 03:09 PM
Subject:
RE: Is there a way to display spool files a writer has printed?
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Of course, that decision is outside of my realm; even my bosses (though he
and I do recommend from time-to-time).

Anyway, that's something else I didn't know. We've got a ton of printers
ranging from desk jets to be honkers that do everything except tuck you in
bed at night (though I don't like the coffee they brew). More to the
point, how do I tell if any of them are IPDS capable? I suppose, if one
is IPDS capable, I'd have to re-run the CRTDEVPRT command because I don't
see the type on the CHGDEVPRT command.

Thanks, Charles. Gives me something to look up between fire drills.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [
mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:41 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Is there a way to display spool files a writer has printed?

Jerry,

That's not an issue if you pay for actual *IPDS capable printers.

The IPDS protocol is smart enough not to report back the the file has
printed until it has.

Charles

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Jerry Adams <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Charles,

Thanks. Job Accounting is set on our system, according to these steps.

Still nothing.

But there's a gotcha in this whole process, anyway. Printers have

memory these days. When the System i gets through pushing the report to
the printer's memory, it considers the report finished and either deletes
it, saves it, or whatever. However, if the printer's memory gets reset
before the report physically prints, all bets are off. This has happened
to us several times, which resulted in me changing the OVRPRTF or the //
PRINTER OCL statement to Save the output for critical, non-rerunable
reports (such as end-of-period stuff). I hate printers, anyway.

Thanks.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [

mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt

Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:31 AM
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Subject: Re: Is there a way to display spool files a writer has printed?

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzaks/rzaksjobactsettingup.htm

Charles

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Jerry Adams <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

The only other thing that I found in the manual was that job accounting

had to be started. The journal's on the system (QACGJRN) but I have not
yet been able to find a menu or a manual that will tell me if it's started
or, if not, how to start it.

Still looking - between coffee breaks.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:22 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Is there a way to display spool files a writer has

printed?

That said, I printed a report, then pressed F6. But nothing showed
up. Even tried *ALL users. Must be something else involved, but
that's all I could find in the manual.

I also tried to turn this one, printed several reports then tried to

see

them as printed as that printer. Nothing showed up. Does this need an
IPL to go into effect?