DCPS printe que again

[Antoniov.]

DCPS V2.3 installed.
Print xerox 6200
Print fine but file stay in que in holding. Why?
Thanx

Antoniov

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Hello Antoniov,

can you provide us with the output of a show que/full/all of the queue in question. Also exactly what print command is used? Is there maybe a print:==print/retain=always somewhere?

Greetings, Martin

[Åge Rønning]

Antoniov,
you might want to have a look in DCPS 2.3 Release Notes section 4.4 regarding "Connection termination for raw TCP/IP Queue".

Hope that helps!

[Antoniov.]

Hi Martin,
no I don't view /RETAIN
I view
/DEFAULT=(FORM=DEFAULT) /NOENABLE_GENERIC /LIBRARY=DCPS_LIB /PROC=DCPS$SMB /NO_INITIAL_FF /SCHEDULE=(NOSIZE)

Thanks
Antoniov

[Willem Grooters]

Antonio,

Check your symbols as well. PRINT can be set to be PRINT/RETAIN without you knowing it ;-)
and so it will be a print-job parameter, in stead of a queue parameter. (SHOW SYMBOL /GLOBAL P* would do, eventually PR )

[Terry Yeomans]

If you cannot find any logical pointing to your queue name at all, then type SET QUEUE/NORETAIN queue_name
It may have been caused by somebody having a problem on this queue, therefore setting the /RETAIN switch on and forgetting to take it off.

[Antoniov.]

Hi Willen,
no symbol redefinition.
Terry,
I set que/noretain.
Problem seems xerox printer (you see my prior forum post) is not fully recognized by DCPS; print is queued but communication is not successfully closed, so entry stay holding.
Now I'll do another tries.

Thanks
Antoniov

[Åge Rønning]

Antoniov,
The major feature of V2.3 is the addition of LPD support. Printing via LPD allows printing to printers that don't support bi-directional IP communications.

If nothing else works properly LPD might help you.

[Antoniov.]

Hi Age,
I've tried to use LPD but I can't understand as work.
In DCPS$STARTUP.COM I've wrote (in P2 param) axpsvr::"lpd/xx.xx.xx.xx" where axpsvr is my VMS server, lpd is protocol (now I don't remember exactly the word but I've copied from DCPS documentation) and xx.xx.xx.xx is IP address of printer; I've not supplied queue name because printer hasn't this feature; documentation tell queue name may be null.
But when I executed DCPS$STARTUP I've reveiced error message (now I don't remembere exactly but is like wrong server name); I've tried removing server name but I've receiced another error message; so I've suspended this work with intention fo read better documentation.
If you have some idea post any clue.

Thanks
Antoniov

[Åge Rønning]

My documentation says it should be "IP_LPD/xx.xx.xx.xx" so change LPD to IP_LPD.