Intermate AS/400, i5 manual Example 2, Using same Queue for Input and Output, Checking the Writer

Example 2, Using same Queue for Input and Output

We will now create a new AFC queue, which will be used for both input and output for Auto Forms Control

Step 1. Checking the Writer

First we will make sure our printer only prints out one specific form type, and leave others to AFC.

The easiest way to do this is from the InterForm400® Main Menu to choose 80. Administering InterForm 400, 2. Configure InterForm 400 and then press Enter several times to get the screen below:

Configure InterForm 400	APF101D
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Do you want to use the APF3812/STRWTRCHK program as validity checking program for the STRPRTWTR and STRRMTWTR commands, to avoid a writer to be started with FORMTYPE(*ALL) on one of the output queues defined in Auto-Forms-Control, and if yes, what formtype has to replace *ALL when a writer is started on one of these output queues.

Use APF3812/STRWTRCHK as a validity checker	N (Y N)
Form type to replace *ALL	__________

This option is especially useful, if you are using the same output queue for both input to AFC-functions and for output to a printer, as a writer never should be started with FORMTYPE(*ALL) on such an output queue.

F3=Exit F12=Cancel

In this screen you state Y to use STRWTRCHK as a validity checker, and specify which particular form type the printer writer is restricted to process.

In case you do not want to use this general change, you can specify a specific form type when starting or changing writer jobs as seen below.

Printer Writer (Twinax, or TCP/IP (TN5250E or Raw Socket))

If the printer writer is already started and attached to another output queue, the following command will change PRTXXX to be attached to output queue AFC_INPUT2. (If the writer is not started just replace CHGWTR with STRPRTWTR)

CHGWTR WTR(PRTXXX) OUTQ(APF3812/AFC_INPUT2)

FORMTYPE(*STD)

Defining formtype *STD for the writer will limit the subsystem QSPL to process jobs with this formtype only, thus leaving all jobs regardless of formtype to be processed by subsystem AUTO_FORM:

Remote Writer (TCP/IP LPD)

You can not change a remote writer to use another queue as it is the queue itself which contains the definition of the writer (IP address). You should instead follow the procedure explained on page 370 Attaching through a TCP/IP Print Server in order to configure queue AFC_INPUT2 as a remote writer. Note that remote writer must be started

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