Q:
Topic thread:
Printer Systems (PRINT - NA/ATS)
PSF/AIX
My customer is using the pcl2afp capability of PSF for AIX to transform
PCL insurance policy output for printing on IBM 3160 printers. We are
monitoring file space in the /var filesystem, and notice that at times
files are "left over" in /var/psf/tmp after the PCL print job is
transformed and printed. This results in the /var filesystem filling up
over time and causing all kinds of havoc. We are now manually
monitoring the /var/psf/tmp directory and deleting all files except
those with a current (today) date stamp.
I have read in other ViewBlue items that the file contained in
/var/psf/tmp is the AFPDS file which is created by the pcl2afp
transform. We submit the job via lpr to a queue which has datatype=pcl
hardcoded in /etc/qconfig.
I have three questions.
1. Am I correct in believing that these "left over" files are AFPDS
files created by pcl2afp ?
2. What types of things could cause this file to be "left over" rather
than deleted ? (It seems like most of our files do indeed get correctly
deleted.)
3. What diagnostic steps would you suggest ?
As always, thanks for your help.
A:
The files in /var/psf/tmp are AFPDS files from the pcl2afp transform
that are supposed to be erased when a job prints successfully. In this
customer's case, they have jobs that are not printing successfully for
possibly a number of reasons, including insufficient space in the /var
and/or /var/psf filesystems, their requirement for more than 50 PCLsoft
fonts in a customized UserInit file, and the amount of virtual memory
this requires as a result.
The customer is working with Level 2, but development wishes to
reiterate that the PCL transform in PSF/AIX and Infoprint Manager was
never formally tested with any softfonts in UserInit, much less 55, and
thus cannot be formally supported.
Working with Level 2 is the correct approach.
Please reopen if you have additional questions.
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:
psf/6000 psf/aix infoprint psf aix pcl2afp pcl transform /var/psf/tmp
afpds
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