On Oct 30, 1:21 pm, Scott Coffey wrote:
> Let's say I have a broken printer (PRT01), and I want to redirect
> printed output for the broken printer to a different printer (PRT02).
> Is there a simple way to do this that will persist across IPL's until
> the broken printer is fixed?

If it is twinax just vary off both printers, change the device ID of
prt01 to point to the device ID associated with prt02, turn off prt01
to make sure it is not on the twinax network, and when you do a
wrkcfgsts *dev prt02 set the Parm "Online at IPL" to no. Anything that
was trying to hit prt01 will print out of the other machine.

If it is a TCP/IP printer, you can either swap IP addresses on the
printers or on the device descriptions on the as/400.

Chris

Hi Scott -

On 30 Oct 2007 15:21:01 -0500, Scott Coffey wrote:

>Let's say I have a broken printer (PRT01), and I want to redirect
>printed output for the broken printer to a different printer (PRT02).
>Is there a simple way to do this that will persist across IPL's until
>the broken printer is fixed?

Change the output queue for PRT01 to be a remote output queue pointing
to the output queue for PRT02. Change the device description PRT01 to
not vary on at IPL so that no writer will be started.

Note that any reports that are held in PRT01 will not go to PRT02 and
that any reports that are SAVE(*YES) will be saved in both output
queues.

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Ken
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