Intermate i5, AS/400, iSeries manual Configuring a Printer Device Manually, From 5219 to

2.An available Twinax device address (0-6) should be provided by the system administrator. Follow the instructions of your protocol converter in order to alter this switch setting.

3.Attach the protocol converter to the Twinax network and power it on. After a while a printer device and an output queue is created on the system. The name of the device and the queue will be identical and will normally have a notation like “PRT05" or “PRT010305". Type the following command and scroll to locate the new printer device:

WRKDEVD *PRT

4.The device will indicate the text “Created by auto configuration”. Use option 5 to display the device description. Verify that the device type is 3812. If it indicates 5219 then proceed with section Changing device description

from 5219 to 3812.

5.If the device indicates a 3812 model 1 you just need to start the printer writer:

STRPRTWTR PRTXXX

6.Go to section Print font reference list for testing the connection

7.Note that if Auto Configuration is enabled on the AS/400 the protocol converter might change the device description back to 5219 the next time it is powered ON. Disable auto configuration to prevent this problem:

CHGSYSVAL SYSVAL(QAUTOCFG) VALUE(‘0')

Configuring a Printer Device Manually

The following describes how to create a new device without the use of Auto Configuration.

1.The following information for the device must be provided by the system administrator: Port Number (0-7), the Switch setting (0-6) and the Attached controller (CTL0x).

2.Make sure Auto configuration is disabled by the following CL command.

CHGSYSVAL SYSVAL(QAUTOCFG) VALUE(‘0')

3.Follow the instructions of your protocol converter in order to set the Twinax address switch setting (0-6).

4.Attach the protocol converter to the Twinax network and power it ON.

5.The following CL command will create a new device description called PRTXXX for a 3812 model 1 on port 2 switch setting 3 and controller CTL01.

CRTDEVPRT DEVD(PRTXXX) DEVCLS(*LCL) TYPE(3812)

MODEL(1) PORT(2) SWTSET(3) CTL(CTL01) FONT(11)

If you are not able to fit the entire command on the command line, you can prompt the command CRTDEVPRT with F4 and fill in the rest.

6.Vary on the device with the following command

VRYCFG CFGOBJ(PRTXXX) CFGTYPE(*DEV) STATUS(*ON)

7.Start the printer writer with the following command:

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