RE: [U2] Spooler question
Here is the number you need when you call Microsoft to get the fix. The fix will be in SP1 on server 2003 Q820550 Thanks, Tony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Bartlett Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 8:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] Spooler question We have two system printers, and would like to set up the following scenario... One form queue that prints the next incoming job on any of the two printers, BUT allows us to specify certain reports that need to come out one after the other (ie on one printer) Thanks dennis - GWK BEPERK/LIMITED (REG: 1997/022252/06) POSBUS 47 PO BOX 8730 DOUGLAS Direkteure/Directors: NB Jacobs, FJ Lawrence, J v/d S Botes, JH Coetzee, JGD Smit, JF Jacobs, AO M|ller, JW Smit, JP Snyman, JG Stander, JH van Dyk(MD/BD), JG Jacobs, A M|ller, M van Zyl, Sekr/Secr: E van Niekerk. Hierdie e-pos is onderworpe aan 'n vrywaring beskikbaar by: http://www.gwk.co.za/DisclaimerVrywaring.asp This e-mail is subjected to the disclaimer that can be viewed at: http://www.gwk.co.za/DisclaimerVrywaring.asp --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: Memo: RE: [U2] Spooler question
Tim: In standard Pick format one can assign up to three form ques to a printer or the same form que to multiple printers. That way a report sent to that form que would either: a) print to the single printer when it's free, or b) print to the 1st available printer the que is assigned to. Of course, maybe I'm dreaming. :-) Bill > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Timothy Snyder > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 8:11 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Memo: RE: [U2] Spooler question > > > "Dennis Bartlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/20/2004 09:52:54 > AM: > > > Yes I've looked at classes - the idea would hold is we only wanted to > print to > > any one of several available printers... > > > > the bummer is getting the month-end / genled reports to come > out oneafter > the > > other (ie on one printer) > > You could set up a class that contains all of these printers, and > send most > print jobs to the class; they would show up on whichever printer is > available. Send the reports that need to appear only on a certain printer > directly to that printer instead of the class. > > > Tim Snyder > IBM Information Management > Consulting I/T Specialist , U2 Professional Services > --- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: Memo: RE: [U2] Spooler question
I think I may have done that with a 'PRIORITY' option of SETPTR once. We had the same problem where users were irritated because the reports did not print 'in order'. The other approach was to use different FORMS. So, lets say that there are a bunch of 2part reports and you want to print them in a specific order, you would set one to FORM 2PART1, the other to FORM 2PART2, etc. Then create a voc called PRINT.2PART which would do; MOUNT MY.PRINTER 2PART1 SLEEP 30 MOUNT MY.PRINTER 2PART2 And so on. You get the picture. We separate large reports that to FORM BIG, then have the overnight jobs release them so they don't tie up printers during the day. Anyway, this approach although tedious is simple and doesn't involve scripting. Anthony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Bartlett Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 9:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Memo: RE: [U2] Spooler question Hi Piers/Anthony Yes I've looked at classes - the idea would hold is we only wanted to print to any one of several available printers... the bummer is getting the month-end / genled reports to come out one after the other (ie on one printer) There've been some great ideas - I'm rudimentary at best in scripting, but thanks to all for the pointers... -Original Message- - GWK BEPERK/LIMITED (REG: 1997/022252/06) POSBUS 47 PO BOX 8730 DOUGLAS Direkteure/Directors: NB Jacobs, FJ Lawrence, J v/d S Botes, JH Coetzee, JGD Smit, JF Jacobs, AO M|ller, JW Smit, JP Snyman, JG Stander, JH van Dyk(MD/BD), JG Jacobs, A M|ller, M van Zyl, Sekr/Secr: E van Niekerk. Hierdie e-pos is onderworpe aan 'n vrywaring beskikbaar by: http://www.gwk.co.za/DisclaimerVrywaring.asp This e-mail is subjected to the disclaimer that can be viewed at: http://www.gwk.co.za/DisclaimerVrywaring.asp --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: Memo: RE: [U2] Spooler question
"Dennis Bartlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/20/2004 09:52:54 AM: > Yes I've looked at classes - the idea would hold is we only wanted to print to > any one of several available printers... > > the bummer is getting the month-end / genled reports to come out oneafter the > other (ie on one printer) You could set up a class that contains all of these printers, and send most print jobs to the class; they would show up on whichever printer is available. Send the reports that need to appear only on a certain printer directly to that printer instead of the class. Tim Snyder IBM Information Management Consulting I/T Specialist , U2 Professional Services --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: Memo: RE: [U2] Spooler question
Hi Piers/Anthony Yes I've looked at classes - the idea would hold is we only wanted to print to any one of several available printers... the bummer is getting the month-end / genled reports to come out one after the other (ie on one printer) There've been some great ideas - I'm rudimentary at best in scripting, but thanks to all for the pointers... -Original Message- - GWK BEPERK/LIMITED (REG: 1997/022252/06) POSBUS 47 PO BOX 8730 DOUGLAS Direkteure/Directors: NB Jacobs, FJ Lawrence, J v/d S Botes, JH Coetzee, JGD Smit, JF Jacobs, AO M|ller, JW Smit, JP Snyman, JG Stander, JH van Dyk(MD/BD), JG Jacobs, A M|ller, M van Zyl, Sekr/Secr: E van Niekerk. Hierdie e-pos is onderworpe aan 'n vrywaring beskikbaar by: http://www.gwk.co.za/DisclaimerVrywaring.asp This e-mail is subjected to the disclaimer that can be viewed at: http://www.gwk.co.za/DisclaimerVrywaring.asp --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: Memo: RE: [U2] Spooler question
If you're on Unix have you looked at printer classes ? I think you can define a number of printers as belonging to a class. You can then spool to the class and the print scheduler will send to the first available, or spool to a specific printer hth Piers From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Bartlett Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] Spooler question We have two system printers, and would like to set up the following scenario... One form queue that prints the next incoming job on any of the two printers, BUT allows us to specify certain reports that need to come out one after the other (ie on one printer) Thanks To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Memo: RE: [U2] Spooler question
Hi, Just a thought - Universe prints using a Unix script which you specify in attribute 6 of the &DEVICE& file. You could write a script which checks to see which of the two printers is less busy (use lpstat -0 perhaps?) and then output to that printer. I am no Unix scripting expert but I dont think that should be too difficult. hth asvin "Anthony Dzikiewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 20 Oct 2004 04:00 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: bcc: Subject: RE: [U2] Spooler question Im not sure if Universe can do this by itself. As far as I know you can only have one form mounted on a printer. So, if you your form is say INVOICE, you could MOUNT INVOICE PRINTER1, MOUNT INVOICE PRINTER2. However, Im not sure if this would balance the form printing properly. The problem is that you want other reports (Im assuming other forms) to come out on one of the printers. Am I understanding the correctly ? You could have cron (If using Unix) run something every 10 minutes or whatever is acceptable mount the other form on the specified printer, sleep enough time to empty the queue and then remount the first form back. As far as balancing the load, you may want to write your own despooler. Send everything to the &HOLD& file and have a phantom process keep track of what is printed and to which printer. You could also do this as a bash script (if using unix) by specifing it as your printer driver and let it determine what printer to send a job to. Anthony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Bartlett Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] Spooler question We have two system printers, and would like to set up the following scenario... One form queue that prints the next incoming job on any of the two printers, BUT allows us to specify certain reports that need to come out one after the other (ie on one printer) Thanks dennis - GWK BEPERK/LIMITED (REG: 1997/022252/06) POSBUS 47 PO BOX 8730 DOUGLAS Direkteure/Directors: NB Jacobs, FJ Lawrence, J v/d S Botes, JH Coetzee, JGD Smit, JF Jacobs, AO M|ller, JW Smit, JP Snyman, JG Stander, JH van Dyk(MD/BD), JG Jacobs, A M|ller, M van Zyl, Sekr/Secr: E van Niekerk. Hierdie e-pos is onderworpe aan 'n vrywaring beskikbaar by: http://www.gwk.co.za/DisclaimerVrywaring.asp This e-mail is subjected to the disclaimer that can be viewed at: http://www.gwk.co.za/DisclaimerVrywaring.asp --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.776 / Virus Database: 523 - Release Date: 10/12/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.776 / Virus Database: 523 - Release Date: 10/12/2004 --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ** This message originated from the Internet. Its originator may or may not be who they claim to be and the information contained in the message and any attachments may or may not be accurate. ** HSBC Bank plc may be solicited in the course of its placement efforts for a new issue, by investment clients of the firm for whom the Bank as a firm already provides other services. It may equally decide to allocate to its own proprietary book or with an associate of HSBC Group. This represents a potential conflict of interest. HSBC Bank plc has internal arrangements designed to ensure that the firm would give unbiased and full advice to the corporate finance client about the valuation and pricing of the offering as well as internal systems, controls and procedures to identify and manage conflicts of interest. HSBC Bank plc Registered Office: 8 Canada Square, London E14 5HQ, United Kingdom Registered in England - Number 14259 Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. _ This transmission has been issued by a member of the HSBC Group "HSBC" for the information of the addressee only and should not be reproduced and / or distributed to any other person. Each page attached hereto must be read in conjunction with any disclaimer which forms part of it. Unless otherwise stated, this transmission is neither an offer nor the solicitation of an offer to
RE: [U2] Spooler question
Im not sure if Universe can do this by itself. As far as I know you can only have one form mounted on a printer. So, if you your form is say INVOICE, you could MOUNT INVOICE PRINTER1, MOUNT INVOICE PRINTER2. However, Im not sure if this would balance the form printing properly. The problem is that you want other reports (Im assuming other forms) to come out on one of the printers. Am I understanding the correctly ? You could have cron (If using Unix) run something every 10 minutes or whatever is acceptable mount the other form on the specified printer, sleep enough time to empty the queue and then remount the first form back. As far as balancing the load, you may want to write your own despooler. Send everything to the &HOLD& file and have a phantom process keep track of what is printed and to which printer. You could also do this as a bash script (if using unix) by specifing it as your printer driver and let it determine what printer to send a job to. Anthony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Bartlett Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] Spooler question We have two system printers, and would like to set up the following scenario... One form queue that prints the next incoming job on any of the two printers, BUT allows us to specify certain reports that need to come out one after the other (ie on one printer) Thanks dennis - GWK BEPERK/LIMITED (REG: 1997/022252/06) POSBUS 47 PO BOX 8730 DOUGLAS Direkteure/Directors: NB Jacobs, FJ Lawrence, J v/d S Botes, JH Coetzee, JGD Smit, JF Jacobs, AO M|ller, JW Smit, JP Snyman, JG Stander, JH van Dyk(MD/BD), JG Jacobs, A M|ller, M van Zyl, Sekr/Secr: E van Niekerk. Hierdie e-pos is onderworpe aan 'n vrywaring beskikbaar by: http://www.gwk.co.za/DisclaimerVrywaring.asp This e-mail is subjected to the disclaimer that can be viewed at: http://www.gwk.co.za/DisclaimerVrywaring.asp --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.776 / Virus Database: 523 - Release Date: 10/12/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.776 / Virus Database: 523 - Release Date: 10/12/2004 --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
