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Help with print 'stall' time if SPOOL(*NO)
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Bob Lepp
Feb 23, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/23/00
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Cross country, 5494 on 56KB frame relay, SNA over Ethernet, etc.
environment....
a small print job takes 10 seconds to begin to print, but if normal spooling
to an ouput queue is done, only a 3 second delay occurs.
Can anyone advise what system overheads might cause the delay? One would
think spool *no is more direct, perhaps some hardware handshaking is taking
a long time to complete over the link?
environment....
a small print job takes 10 seconds to begin to print, but if normal spooling
to an ouput queue is done, only a 3 second delay occurs.
Can anyone advise what system overheads might cause the delay? One would
think spool *no is more direct, perhaps some hardware handshaking is taking
a long time to complete over the link?
TIA
Bob
Kevin Vette
Feb 24, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/24/00
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Bob Lepp wrote:
Not sure exactly what you are saying. Does it take 3 seconds with spool to
actually spool the file or 3 seconds to start printing a file when sending it
to spool? If the latter, I would think the "hardware handshaking" should be the
same whether writing direct or writing from a spooled file. I do know that no
data will be sent with SPOOL(*NO) until a full page is been put. Could that be
the problem? You can specify DFRWRT(*NO) on the printer file to get the data to
start printing before a full page has been put with SPOOL(*NO).
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Kevin Vette
AS/400 Spool/Print
IBM Rochester, Minnesota
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