InterForm Manual - System & Method

Example 2, Using same Queue for Input and Output
W e will now create a new AFC queue, which will be used for both input and output for Auto
Forms Control
Step 1. Checking the Writer
First we will make sure our printer only prints out one specific form type, and leave others to
AFC.
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The easiest way to do this is from the InterForm400 Main Menu to choose 70. Configuration
and licences, 2. Configure InterForm 400 and then press Enter several times to get the
screen below:
Configure InterForm 400 APF101D
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Do you want to use the APF3812/STRWTRCHK program as validity checking program
for the STRPRTWTR and STRRMTWTR commands, to avoid a writer to be started with
FORMTYPE(*ALL) on one of the output queues defined in Auto-Forms-Control, and
if yes, what formtype has to replace *ALL when a writer is started on one of
these output queues.
Use APF3812/STRWTRCHK as a validity checker N (Y N)
Form type to replace *ALL . . . . . . . . . . __________
This option is especially useful, if you are using the same output queue
for both input to AFC-functions and for output to a printer, as a writer
never should be started with FORMTYPE(*ALL) on such an output queue.
F3=Exit F12=Cancel
In this screen you state Y to use STRWTRCHK as a validity checker, and specify which
particular form type the printer writer is restricted to process.
In case you do not want to use this general change, you can specify a specific form type when
starting or changing writer jobs as seen below.
Printer Writer (Twinax, or TCP/IP (TN5250E or Raw Socket))
If the printer writer is already started and attached to another output queue,
the following command will change PRTXXX to be attached to output queue
AFC_INPUT2. (If the writer is not started just replace CHGW TR with
STRPRTWTR)
CHGWTR WTR(PRTXXX) OUTQ(APF3812/AFC_INPUT2)
FORMTYPE(*STD)
Defining formtype *STD for the writer will limit the subsystem QSPL to process
jobs with this formtype only, thus leaving all jobs regardless of formtype to be
processed by subsystem AUTO_FORM:
Remote Writer (TCP/IP LPD)
You can not change a remote writer to use another queue as it is the queue
itself which contains the definition of the writer (IP address). You should
instead follow the procedure explained on page 405 Attaching through a
TCP/IP Print Server in order to configure queue AFC_INPUT2 as a remote
writer. Note that remote writer must be started with formtype *STD in order to
limit the subsystem QSPL to process jobs with this formtype only, thus leaving
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