I swapped out a twinax terminal with a PC and ran into a world of hurt with the printer configuration. Normally, things go smoothly with general print jobs, but this particular printer is utilized to print wide reports for many people in the office.
Config: Printer is an Okidata ML 320 Turbo. PC is new Dell running Windows XP Pro. IBM Client Access with latest service packs loaded.
IBM and Okidata tech support are very friendly, but after two weeks, just didn't cut the mustard.
My good buddy and '400 guru helped me out with this scripting trickery: Set printer in IBM PPR mode. Load Okidata ML 320-IBM driver for printer. Set printer session to use Host Print Transform and configure Workstation Customizing Object on the AS/400. This process is fairly complicated, but the end result is a happy customer. A little dot matrix printer can now print wide reports in portrait mode.
IBM's Knowledge base - direct link
or, try navigating through this if the above link has been changed:
IBM Documents - Technical Databases - Software - Knowledge Base - All Docs - Search
a few handy commands:
hldoutq P0
rlsoutq P0
wscst - crtwscst
menu shift 3
strpdm - editor
- c - copy
- a - paste after
- cc - mark block text beginning and end
qgpl - library
*transform
*oki320IBM
wrkoutq qezjoblog
( WinXP Oki Microline 320 Turbo AS/400 AS400 )
