Creating pc printer for as400 sessions

pbratlnd:

When you go through the procedure that I outlined, you should see that an output quese was created on the AS/400 and that a writer was started. Once the printer emulation session is started, you start and stop the writer by using the [Start] and [Stop] buttons in the printer session window.

That seemed to be what you wanted. However, perhaps you don't want a PC-controlled emulator session. If you're asking about the remote writer support instead, then I _think_ you will need to make sure you have properly configured your PC to act as a printer server. (But that's a Windows question, not AS/400.)

In order to send to a remote printer from OS/400 or i5/OS, you would use the SNDTCPSPLF command. TCP/IP is the supported network protocol. As long as you have an IP address and a printer queue on your PC that can accept spooled files from remote systems, there shouldn't be any problems. Opening your PC so that any other system can send spooled files through it has potential issues.

Note that this does not necessarily involve creating a new output queue on your AS/400. Spooled files on any existing *outq can be sent. Nor does it involve starting a writer; any job can execute the SNDTCPSPLF command.

If you want, you can set up a remote *outq by using the CRTOUTQ command and filling in the various remote system parameters. I've never seen anyone do it for a general PC-connected printer. Usually, IP addresses change as DHCP hands out addresses over time; so DNS name resolution must be considered. But I suppose it could work. And if you have a static IP address, then that's not a big problem. I can't tell you much about what parameters to specify when you do CRTOUTQ because I have no idea how you have configured for printer serving on your PC.

When you create a remote *outq, you will need to start a remote writer to move spooled files from the queue over to the PC. You use the STRRMTWTR command to start the writer and associate it with the *outq.

Tom