Hi Managers,
I am trying to print from Digital UNIX 4.0B 4100 Servers to the
printers on AS400, but with no success. The reports that I am trying
to print are plain ascii files. I also tried with converting the file
to EBCDIC and then print it on the AS400, but with no luck. Seems like
the AS400 needs the file with all attributes. How do I do turn the
attributes and what attributes to make it work? How do I make AS400
happy :(
Here's what happening "I think"...
When the AS400 receives a spool file from another AS400 it comes with
all the attributes defined. A job on the receiving AS400 receives the
file and retrieves all the attributes and creates the spool file. When
the spool file is received from a non AS400 system and tries to
retrieve the attributes and doesn't find any, it then plugs in some
default values. Since the AS400 plugs in its own values for the file
name and user they are always going to be the same. The only
difference is the User Data field which is the file name coming from
the Unix side. If we are going to do bulk printing for Unix the AS400
needs to read these attributes to determine font size and
distribution.
Report Manager can key in on User Data only. The problem is the Unix
file name is not always going to be the same for the same report. The
spool file comes formatted from Unix in ASCII. The AS400 can only read
EBCDIC and there for can not use filters to search for data within a
report.
I have talked to IBM and they basically told me the same thing. When
we send a spool file from the AS400 to another AS400 and want to send
all the spool file attributes we turn on a flag (*alldata). We would
need to do something similar on the Unix side to send all attributes.
At this point the only solution I can think of is to look for some 3rd
party software that might do this. I don't know if any exist.
Anyone ran into similar situation? High volume printing from UNIX to
AS400. Your help and comments are appreciated.
Thanks,
Ronny Eliahu
The Walt Disney Company
Disney World Wide Services
Disney Studio, Burbank California
Received on Wed Jan 14 1998 - 22:44:26 NZDT