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    & TWEFOURMUNORED —SUBSCRRE MEANT CONTHBUTORS ABOUTUS. CONTACT THE FOUR HUNDRED Power Sjotems AN Insight OVERCOME THE PAGE CONTROL LIMITATIONS OF ISERIES ACCESS PRINTER EMULATION SESSIONS: ‘ver the years, Series Access virtual printer emulation sessions have been used to sucessfully print variety of spool fle reports fom System {and AS/400 systems toa local PC printer Regardless of the reports page attributes (page orientation, line per inch, characters per inc, ‘number of columns, et), the printer emulator wil often succesfully and automatically correc ‘he output and automatically adjust the spool file's page settings o print successfully toa local printer However, in other cases it seems like takes quite abit of tinkering to get various spool files o print coretly to aloal printer. ‘Specifically, here are two common scenarios {encounter 1. After upgrading iSeries Acces toa new level. the printer emulator no longer automatically aaj the printer ourpt tit nicely on the PC printers page ast once di This hasbeen especlly tue afer custome has upgraded ta Series Acces VSR3 where it seems the ‘Volume, Number 17 May, 2007 ‘THISISSUE SPONSORED Ev: Hp/sysems ison Solons ‘WorksRigh Software TABLE OF CONTENTS Monitor for Specific Messages in RPG ‘Overcome the Page Contol Limitations of Sere Aces Printer Emulation Sesons ‘Admin. Ader Dealing with Critical Storage software has lost some ability t0 “auto fi" spool les toa PC printer. assuring this is because IBM was in losing fight to make the “auto-ft” capability to work with every kind ‘of spool file and every kind of printer. 2. The emulator as been set to force cersin page characteristics suchas only printing portrait reports with 210 CP! font. For example, [spent about 30 minutes helping a customer configure an emulation session to print a specific software application’ spoo! ein portrait After lots of wasted time and paper we finally came up with a sucessful combination of settings to get everything on the page although in the end the font the ‘raulatar chose sil looked somewhat strange) Worse, thi specific printer erlator session ‘was basiealy locked ito printing single type of report with specific page attbutes! Do these scenarios sound famille? And what abou those times when you nally get printer session to work but don't get god backup of the sessions dentin?! Attempting to ‘reconfigure a session that once worked is often a frustrating exercise. (Over the years, Ive terpted io help many customers re-create printer session definitions that were lost) ‘When working with aPC laser printer, in many cass I believe the answer to thes printer emulator lemmas are: 1 ‘Stop relying onthe printer emulator to correctly “auto ft" the page setup 2. Stop forcing the printer emulatorto print eports with one specific set of page aebutes fe emulator doesnt have to gues the page forma, then we need no tinkering with the page efinition-in most cases the default emulator characteristics will work so we don't need to ‘worry about hacking up the emulation sessions definition or documenting an obscure combination of settings Further, we don' need to loca printer emulator into printing “tandscape" onl or“portrai” only printing as often occurs. ‘The answer to removing the guess works to correctly define page atributs on the spool le ftself so the emulator knows exactly how to format the page. A spool ile gets it atributes from the print file (or roma printer file override) so the printer file definition itself s where we need to focus our attention. ‘Toillustrate the proposed solution, consider one common problem scenario: 1 Arepor's printer leis defined with the default 182 character width 2 Only 80 characters or less are actualy used inthe princer output so the assumption is that ‘the report should print portrait 3. However, since the emulator sees the need to print 132 characters wide it rotates the page to landscape. Im order to fix this problem, the printer file should be defined with the following. characteristics: PAGESIZE(G6 48) CX(20) L9I(6) PAGRTT(O) ‘The PAGESIZE parameter defines the page size a 6 ines per page and 80 characters across. ‘The PAGRTT parameter defines the page rotation in 90 degree increments. The default page rotations ‘AUTO which leaves some guesswork to the printer emulator a to how to best format the output. A page rotation of0 wil force «portrait print. A rotation of 90 wil force Jandscape orientation. The CPL and LP setings define the characters per inch and lines per {Inch 10 CPLis the default 6 LPs als a default. For It-inch length paper, 6 LP wil ive us the

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