Can not print to 3130 from PSF/6000 but can from PSF/2
ITEM: RTA000106640
Q:
ABSTRACT: Can not print to 3130 from PSF/6000 but can from PSF/2
and AS/400?
SEARCH ARG: psf/2 ipds 3130
TOPIC THREAD: PRINT
PRINTER_HARDWARE
3130
..
Customer wants to print IPDS to a 3130 attached token-ring from PSF/2,
AS/400 and PSF/6000. He can print from AS/400 and PSF/2 but unable to
print IPDS from PSF/6000. The queues for 3130 on PSF/6000 show UP when
we try to print an ASCII job through PSF/6000 queues go down and the
jobs sit in the queue as status canceled. I can LPR to the 3130 from
AIX. Any ideas? We have plenty of free space in /var.
A:
It's hard to say without information from the PSF/AIX error log, but
the most likely cause is that another PSF (like PSF/2) currently has an
IPDS conversation established with the printer, so PSF/AIX is unable
to establish the communications. Look at the error.log file in the
/var/psf/printername subdirectory for the latest timestamp message
and see if that's what it says. If that's the case, then you can test
easily by ending PSF/2's session with the printer.
To set it up permanently so that you can share a single printer between
multiple PSFs, you need to set the timers correctly on all the PSF
systems to release the printer after no more work appears after a given
time period, and other timers to tell each PSF to wait forever until the
other PSFs release the printer.
For example, on PSF/AIX, to set up the release timer (which is known as
the Job Interval Shutdown Timer), you go into the PSF/AIX configuration
panel, Show/Change Characteristics..., Tuning Options, and change the
default for Job Interval SHUTDOWN timer from 9999 (which says never
release) to your desired number of seconds. (Onscreen help is quite
good. Or see page 173 of S544-3817-03, Print Administration.)
Then on PSF/AIX to set up the "wait forever" timer (which is known as
the Connection Timeout), under PSF/AIX configuration and Show/Change
Characteristics..., Device Options, change the default from 30 seconds
to 0, which means never time out. (See page 162 of S544-3817-03, Print
Administration.)
If you need the equivalent information for PSF/2 and can't find it in
the hardcopy or online documentation, please reopen the item.
Thanks for using WWQ&A.
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:
timer share sharing timers PSF/AIX PSF/6000 PSF/2 IPDS 3130 3160
3900 4000 job interval shutdown conversation connection Direct PSF/400
queue down connect error
WWQA: ITEM: RTA000106640 ITEM: RTA000106640
Dated: 06/1998 Category: XPSF6000
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