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How do I configure the Barr File port to create a new file when a duplicate file name is received?
How do I print NJE or RJE-received Metacode jobs to a Barr LPR printer?
How do I enable the 'Print directly to the printer' setting?
How do I create a NUL printer to delete jobs?
How do I clear a print job from BHCS after printing has been stopped at the printer?
How can I always print to a Barr LPR port or network-attached printer in landscape format?
How do I format mainframe output to fit on 8.5-by-11-inch paper?
When you configure the Barr LPR port to print to a TCP/IP printer, you must specify the following parameters on the Job tab: in the Printer queue (-P) box, type afccu2 and under Transmission format, select Control file last (-E).
When BHCS writes to disk and encounters a duplicate file name, you can select to create a new file on the File Options tab. How a file is renamed depends on whether or not the file name is limited to eight characters.
If you select to limit the file name to eight characters on the File Options tab, BHCS generates a numeric
extension for the new file, starting with .001. If hundreds of duplicate
names are encountered and extension .999 is reached, the software places
a separator character and then 1 at the end of the file name, and begins
the extension sequence again (Name#1.001).
It will repeat this renumbering sequence until it reaches Name#10.999.
The default separator character is a number sign (#), however you can
specify a new separator character on the File
Options tab. 
If file names are not limited to eight characters, BHCS appends numbers to the first part of the file name, without changing the extension. It adds a number sign followed by 10 sequential digits, starting with Name#0000000001.ext. If hundreds of duplicate names are encountered, the software repeats this renumbering sequence until it reaches Name#9999999999.ext.
Sending S/370 data with LPR requires the S/370 file to be received as a binary file. To do this, the data must first be written to file in S/370 format, and then imported back into BHCS as a binary file. This binary file can then be written to M.I.S. Print as a raw/binary file.
Write the file to disk. Select the S/370 format on the File Format tab.
Use Print Utility to add the file back to the spool. Use the following settings:
From the Spooling Properties dialog box, select to delete the original file.
From the Format tab, select Binary (raw).
Print data to a TCP/IP printer. Use the following settings:
In the LPR port configuration, select Verbatim (-Ov) on the Content tab.
When you create the Barr spool printer, on the Advanced Printer Options dialog box select Special: Pass data to printer without conversion. See the Passing data to the printer without conversion topic for more information.
Before you can print NJE or RJE-received Metacode files to
a Barr LPR printer, you must remove the NJE wrapping. (That is, when files
are received with NJE or RJE, the data remains in NJE-wrapped format Equivalent to the NJE format at the mainframe.
The data is typically EBCDIC and is formatted as NJE records, with NJE
record headers and NJE file headers.,
and when the files are sent out with LPR there is no way to strip off
the NJE wrapping and keep the data from being converted.)
Perform the following steps to print NJE or RJE-received Metacode jobs to a Barr LPR printer.
Write the data to disk. Select the Binary (raw) format on the File Format tab.
Add the file back into the spooler with the Print Utility. Select the Binary (raw) format on the Format tab.
When you create the Barr spool printer, on the Advanced Printer Options dialog box select Special: Pass data to printer without conversion. See the Passing data to the printer without conversion topic for more information.
M.I.S. Print accepts S/370 formatted data files, but they must be sent by the Barr IP port using native TCP/IP. Create a new printer using the Barr IP Port. When you configure the port, select the S/370 format on the File Format tab. To do this, follow the steps in the Writing to a TCP/IP socket topic.
When you are connecting to a network, you must be logged on to the same user account specified during installation. Complete the following steps to find out what account was entered during installation.
Open the Services utility.
Select the BARR SpoolCore service, and on the menu bar select Action | Properties.
Select the Log On tab. The account specified under Log on as is the user that needs to create the network printers. Once the printers are created, all users with valid user rights in the Barr Host Communications Suite can log on and the network printers will be available.
If a system account is selected, we recommend you uninstall and then reinstall the software selecting the user account type. If you are unable to uninstall and reinstall the software, you can configure the service to log on as a user account.
You can start and stop physical printers from the printer's control panel.
You can start individual physical printers by pressing the online button on your printer's control panel.
You can stop individual physical printers by pressing the offline button on your printer�s control panel.
When configuring the Barr Host Communications Suite to send overlays to printers, it can be useful to determine which overlays are actually being sent. Complete the following steps to determine the overlay being sent to the printer:
Create a trace file using the Operator Console. On the Options dialog box, use the following settings: under the BHCS module, select PLC and set the priority level to Trace.
Send your jobs to the printer. Every job that is sent to a printer with overlays correctly enabled will result in an Operator Console message similar to the following:
Module: PLC - BARR SpoolCore Service
Priority: Trace
Date & Time: variable
Message: Information about which file was used as an overlay
Module ID: 10
Message ID: 6001
Thread ID: variable
The code is always 6001 and the priority
level is Trace. Therefore, it might be easier to find these types
of messages if you scan for them based on code and priority, then scroll
over to examine the message to determine which overlay file is being applied.
Complete the following steps to reset the Barr SpoolCore service and clear the Windows spooler buffers.
Change the spool document state to Hold.
Stop the spool printer. The printer state changes to Draining.
Stop the BARR SpoolCore and spooler services.
Restart the Windows spooler service.
Open the Windows Printer folder and double-click the desired printer to make sure the job has cleared.
Restart the BARR SpoolCore service.
Landscape printing can be set in the Windows printer's document defaults if a non-text driver is being used (for example, not the Generic/Text Only or the Barr ASCII printer drivers). Use the following procedure to set the printer's page layout to landscape mode.
This will cause every job sent to that printer to print in
landscape mode, even when printing from a program other than the Barr
Host Communications Suite. If this is not the desired result, you need
to create a page layout.
Open the Windows Printers folder.
Right-click the printer and select Printing Preferences.
Select the Layout tab and select Landscape.
You can use the Configuration Utility's Page Layout tab to maintain a list of registered page layouts that can be used to specify print options such as paper size, orientation, fonts, and font sizes when printing. Page layouts are assigned to print jobs whenever a registered page layout name is recognized in a specified header field. Thus, an important step in defining page layouts is specifying a header field that will contain the page layout name.
See the Working with page layouts topic for specific steps on creating a page layout. When you define a page layout, consider the following page setup and font settings:
When defining a page setup, set the page orientation to Landscape. If the print is not centered on the page, adjust the margin settings.
When defining a font, remember that a fixed pitch font (Windows Icon looks like an 'A') will create output in which columns line up evenly. Most 'TrueType' fonts (Windows Icon looks like a 'TT') have a variable pitch and probably will not be suitable for tabulated data; the columns will not line up properly. A good font choice is Courier, with a size of 9 points and height of 85%.
If jobs are still printing portrait after
selecting landscape, follow the instructions in the Printing
to a Barr LPR port or network-attached printer in landscape format
topic.
To print PostScript data through LPD, data files need to be received in Binary (raw) format and passed through unmodified to the printer. Changes must be made in both the LPD queue settings in the TCP/IP Configuration utility and the spool printer settings in the Configuration Utility.
TCP/IP Configuration utility – Modify or create an LPD print queue, and change the <Default> file type to Binary (raw) on the Format tab. We do not recommend changing the <Default> queue, which is typically reserved for ASCII text.
Configuration
Utility –
Select
the Pass data to printer without conversion
option on the Advanced
Printer Options dialog box.
