On the command line enter the ‘prtsysinf’ command and hit . After hitting , the following should be displayed with a slight delay based on the amount of information printed. As you can see by the status line, the information was printed successfully! Now we need to access those printed files to direct them to the newly created output queue. We do this by using the ‘WRKSPLF’ command (Work with Spooled Files). Select the file you want to change by entering a ‘2’ on the line next to it. This will bring up the ‘Change Spooled File Attributes’ screen. The first change we can make is what printer to send it to. On this field make sure it says ‘*OUTQ’. Then, as it shows the key is available, hit . Now you can hit the key to access the rest of the parameters. Now we can change the output queue this job is directed to. For our example, enter ‘DP-6010’ in this field. Some other important items we can change on this screen is Output priority and Save file. Output priority will signify order of importance in the queue. The lower the number, the higher the priority. Save file will print the file but won’t delete it. Now hit the key and we’ll look at the other attributes we might want to change. Some of the items on this page are what drawer to pull from and whether the job is going to be duplexed or not. Now hit again to continue. These are the last 2 pages, although there really isn’t much here that applies to our machines. Now hit to process the job. This will bring you back to the Work with Spooled Files screen. Hit and you should be back to the main menu, if not then hit and you will be. Now to look at our output queue we use the ‘WRKOUTQ’ command. This will bring up a list of all output queues we could work with. Tab down to the ‘DP6010’ queue’s Opt line and enter a ‘5’. The Opt line is for entering the options listed directly above (in blue). This will let us ‘Work with’ the selected output queue. As with many AS/400 commands, there are shortcuts to get there faster. Instead of using the ‘WRKOUTQ’ command by itself, then choosing the correct queue and using the ‘5’ option, you can specify which queue you want to work with at the beginning. Just enter the command ‘WRKOUTQ DP6010’ and hit . Now you will get directly to the ‘Work with output queue’ just for the queue you wanted. Our example above has 3 files ‘queued’ for printing and their status is ‘RDY’, yet another TLA, it of course stands for ‘Ready to print’. On the Opt field, we can enter ‘2’ to change the attributes for that particular file or we could enter a ‘6’ to release it for printing. If it hasn’t printed already, enter a ‘6’ and hit . Congratulations! You have just successfully printed from the AS/400! A note about PTF’s. A Program Temporary Fix is a patch file provided by IBM for either updating or enhancing the operating system. The requirement for printing to the DP-35/45/6010 series will be incl...
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