[[[qa | Main Questions and Answers Page ]]] **This page is under development.** ====== General Questions and Answers ====== **Note to Readers**: **Control-F** will invoke the browser search function with which you may search throughout this page. **Note to posters**: Problem header is H4. ===== General ===== === My PCOMM Session is either extremely slow or non responsive to input. === PCOMM is extremely sensitive to other NON KEYBOARD devices such as barcode scanners and other Human Input Devices in Windows. === My outqueue doesn't have a writer associated with it (or it is not started). === You can confirm this by going into wrkoutq, look for your printer outqueue and see if a writer is associated with it. If you do not see anything, go to a command line and type in strrmtwtr (START REMOTE WRITER)", === What is the lowest OS/400 level the program CUSTSAVE saves down to? === V3R2 === Suppress Form Type mismatch message. === To suppress the message, enter command:
CHGWTR WTR(HP4) FORMTYPE(*SAME *NOMSG) === What is a data queue? === Data queues, which are a type of OS/400 system object, are used to communicate and store data used by several programs either within a job or between jobs. Multiple jobs can send or receive data from a single queue. === When using FTP, it doesn’t prompt me for a user id. === Your FTP user session has timed out. The default time out for an FTP session is five minutes. Simply start the transfer procedure above over again. === Restore an object on AS/400 === RSTOBJ OBJ(*ALL)
SAVLIB(FMG)
DEV(*SAVF)
SAVF(FMG/FMGSAVF)
MBROPT(*ALL)
ALWOBJDIF(*ALL)
use dspobj to look at whats in object === How do I move the macros and soft fonts to the AS/400? === A. There are two most commonly used methods of transferring PC files to the AS/400. For users of client-access, the following steps need to be taken: · Position the mouse pointer over the My Computer icon and right click the mouse. · From the right click menu, select Map Network Drive. · Once at the Map Network Drive window, select the drive that you wish to assign to the shared folder in the Drive prompt. · From the same Map Network Drive window, at the Path prompt enter the path name of the FORMFMG folder in the following format. Next select the OK button \\systemname\QDLS\FORMFMG · At this point a mapped drive to the AS/400 should be established. You should be able to simply drag and drop your forms from your current directory to your shared folder on the AS/400 from windows explorer. Non client-access users need to use FTP to transfer their forms to the AS/400. The procedures to do so are outlined below. · Log into the AS/400 as QSECOFR and issue the following command to ensure that the FTP server is currently running: STRTCPSVR *FTP · From the PC choose the start button from the task bar and select run. · When the run form appears, type : Command · Press the enter key. · From the DOS prompt, change to the directory containing the forms and soft fonts. · Follow the ftp underlined script below to send the files from the PC to the 400: 
C:\>ftp 
ftp> open system name 
user: qsecofr 
password: password 
ftp> type binary 
ftp> put c:\myform.mac /qdls/formfmg/myform.mac 
ftp> quit
=== I would like to include a command in the startup IPL sequence to submit the engine. How do I do this? Moreover what program do I call to end the engine? === To include a command in the startup IPL sequence program the following command in the QSTRUP command language program: SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(FMG/FMC0460) PARM(ENGINE1)) IINLLIBL(QTEMP QGPL FMG) LOG(0 99 NOLIST) LOGCLPGM(*NO) JOBMSGQFL(*WRAP) ---- [[[qa | Main Questions and Answers Page ]]]