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  • TCP/IP Printing Problem

    August 9, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Hey, Joe:

    We recently applied some PTFs on our 15+ iSeries systems, which caused us some strange problems. [The writer is referring to the article, “Three Ways to Direct OS/400 Output Queues to TCP/IP Printers,” Midrange Guru, OS/400 Edition.]

    We had remote output queues configured with uppercase RAW, RAW1, and RAW2 where the one and two can be I/O network card slots. Printers like an HP5Si or HP8000 would use the card slot numbers. After applying the PTFs, our printers quit printing. We called IBM; they recommend using lowercase raw,raw1, and raw2. Sure enough, we changed that and our printers took off.

    They also recommend using XAIX for the Destination options parameter if you would like to enable more than one copy on any particular spool file.

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    Tags: Tags: mgo_rc, Volume 2, Number 60 -- August 9, 2002

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