Technical Document

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TITLE: ... TCP/IP AFP Printer Configuration at R370



New to R370 and above for IPDS printer setup on the LAN that will be using TCP/IP protocol for setup, the IP address, port number, and activation timer is entered into the device description rather than the *PSFCFG object or WRKAFP2 data area (depending on prior release). If any of the PSFCFG parameters are needed, then create and reference in the device description USRDFNOBJ parameter.

                   Display Device Description                    
5716SS1 V3R7M0
 Device description . . . . . . . . :   DEVD        TCP4317
 Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   OPTION      *ALL
 Category of device . . . . . . . . :               *PRT
 Device class . . . . . . . . . . . :   DEVCLS      *LAN       <== new to R370
 Device type  . . . . . . . . . . . :   TYPE        *IPDS
 Device model . . . . . . . . . . . :   MODEL       0
 LAN attachment . . . . . . . . . . :   LANATTACH   *IP        <== make sure *ip
 User-defined object  . . . . . . . :   USRDFNOBJ   TCP4317    <== see *PSFCFG      example below.
   Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . :                 QGPL       
   Object type  . . . . . . . . . . :                 *PSFCFG    
 Data transform program . . . . . . :   USRDTATFM   *NONE
 User-defined driver program  . . . :   USRDRVPGM   *NONE
 Advanced function printing . . . . :   AFP         *YES
 Port number  . . . . . . . . . . . :   PORT        5001       <=== port #
 Online at IPL  . . . . . . . . . . :   ONLINE      *YES
 Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   FONT
   Identifier . . . . . . . . . . . :               011
   Point size . . . . . . . . . . . :               *NONE
 Form feed  . . . . . . . . . . . . :   FORMFEED    *CONT
 Separator drawer . . . . . . . . . :   SEPDRAWER   *FILE
 Separator program  . . . . . . . . :   SEPPGM      *NONE
   Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . :
 Printer error message  . . . . . . :   PRTERRMSG   *INQ
 Message queue  . . . . . . . . . . :   MSGQ        QSYSOPR
   Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . :                 *LIBL
 Activation timer . . . . . . . . . :   ACTTMR      170         <== activation         timer value
 Maximum pending requests . . . . . :   MAXPNDRQS   6
 Print while converting . . . . . . :   PRTCVT      *YES
 Print request timer  . . . . . . . :   PRTRQSTMR   *NOMAX
 Form definition  . . . . . . . . . :   FORMDF      F1C10110
   Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . :                 *LIBL
 Character identifier . . . . . . . :   CHRID       *SYSVAL
 Remote location  . . . . . . . . . :   RMTLOCNAME              <== enter the         printer ip                     address
   Name or address  . . . . . . . . :               9.5.151.112
 
 Dependent location name  . . . . . :   DEPLOCNAME  *NONE
 Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   TEXT        *BLANK
 User-defined options . . . . . . . :   USRDFNOPT
 -----------------User-defined options------------------

If sharing this printer on the network with other systems, then the *PSFCFG object will have to be created to alter the Release timer. It is defaulting to *nomax which means the AS/400 will not release the printer to the network once the writer is started. A value of *sec15 will free it up when inactive for 15 seconds. When a spool file arrives in the outq, it will attempt to connect with the printer to send automatically.

Enter at the command line and prompt:

CRTPSFCFG

PSF configuration  . . . . . . .   TCP4317       Name (example)
  Library  . . . . . . . . . . .     qgpl        Name, *CURLI
User resource library list . . .   *JOBLIBL      *JOBLIBL, *C
Device resource library list . .   *DFT          Name, *DFT
               + for more values
IPDS pass through  . . . . . . .   *NO           *NO, *YES
Activate release timer . . . . .   *NORDYF       *NORDYF, *IM
Release timer  . . . . . . . . .   *sec15        1-1440, *NOM   <-- to share on network, don't use          *NOMAX
Restart timer  . . . . . . . . .   *IMMED        1-1440, *IMM
SNA retry count  . . . . . . . .   2             1-99, *NOMAX
Delay time between SNA retries     0             0-999
Text 'description' . . . . . . .   *BLANK

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Keywords:	AFPip370