Re: Print from a PC to iSeries output queue

[Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti <afvaiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure if I might have misunderstood your needs:
PC has to print some info, that you want it to be copied onto a iSeries 
DB file with CPYSPLF.
I assume you are not sending to printer fancy print out , but just plain 
text data...
Then why not tell the PC so?
Googling for "pc windows print to a flat file" gives quite a number of 
answers.
One of them is in this page:
http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/john-savills-windows-faqs/how-can-i-print-to-an-ascii-text-file-.aspx

Just tried it, and created a new printer on my PC, which I called "Text 
only" printer, not to be the default printer...
Then called EXCEL and printed a report of an .xls sheet of mine, plain 
data only, to that printer.
Asked me path and name of output file.
Output shows data in ASCII plain text file. It could be set to a shared 
drive
I guess, though have not tried it, it could then be copied to whereever 
you need.

Or have I totally missed your point?
HTH
Antonio
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El 17/05/2010 22:49, Mike Cunningham escribió:
> Success! (almost). Thanks to a few replies to my post I have setup NetServer to share a printer that I have configure in Windows as a printer and I can print to that printer from Windows and the file shows up in the iSeries output queue. I can move the spool file and send it to the printer. What I can't do is a CPYSPLF to a database file :( which is what I need to do next. If I setup the NetServer printer share with auto I get an ASCII spool file that I can't display or copy. If I change the printer share and specify SNA (aka SCS) I get a spool file I can display but it is all garbage (probably ascii characters displayed as ebcdic). There is one setting on NetServer printer share that I can't figure out what to enter. The Printer Driver. All documentation I can find points me to a directory in the IFS that I do not have. Qca400\Win32\Install\Printer  I have Qca400 but not Win32 and below.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on where I might look next?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DeLong, Eric
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 10:36 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Print from a PC to iSeries output queue
>
> Mike,
>
> Just go into navigator and define a print share.  This lets you install
> printer drivers on your PC that use your midrange as a windows print
> server.
>
> -Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Cunningham
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 7:42 AM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Print from a PC to iSeries output queue
>
> Is it possible to setup a Windows PC so it has a printer that would
> print to an iSeries output queue?  And then use whatever iSeries
> utilities there are to manage that spool file? Might be move it to a
> queue attached to a remote laser printer and print it, might be copy the
> spool file to a database file and process it with my own application,
> might be print it to a local attached printer. Would this be something
> IPP printing would handle? If so I think I can figure out the server
> side for setup of IPP but what would I need to do on the PC side to
> setup a Windows printer that points to the IPP device?
>