topic modify print queue in Operating System - OpenVMS

modify print queue

Tim Nelson — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:16:07 GMT

Just something I have never done yet.

Had to replace a jetdirect for an existing printer. The older jetdirect was using port 2501 and I need to modify the queue to use port 9100.
What is the correct way to accomplish this ?
init/queue ?
set queue ?
init seems to be the only one with option for hostname/ip:port

Re: modify print queue

Jan van den Ende — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:52:48 GMT

Tim,

apart from the port number I would expect that the IP also changed, but you may have taken care of that.

And if you want to retain queue name and other settings,
STOP /QUE/NEXT
and
INIT/queu/start/on=
will achieve what you want.

This is VMS: it is easy as that!

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

Re: modify print queue

Tim Nelson — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:21:15 GMT

That took care of it.
I had issue attempting to stop the queue as it was stalled.

stop/queue/reset queue_name took care of that.

Init/Queue/Processor=tcpip$telnetsym/On="hostname:9100" queue_name

start/queue queue_name

Thanks !!

Re: modify print queue

T. Simpson — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:31:10 GMT

I wrote an automated procedure that generates the print queues. Simply delete the old queue and run the procedure.

You will prompted for everything necessary to build the queue.

Search my login.com for MYMENU. You should be able to find it from there.

Regards,
Tom

Re: modify print queue

Tim Nelson — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:34:48 GMT

THanks Tom.

I did find your script and it did lead me to the solution.

I/we are overly cautios as we do not want to break anything and spend more hours trying to fix.

Thanks for the note.

Hope things are going well. Say hi to Peter.

Tim