Receiving line or channel printer jobs into BARR/SPOOL

Printers

Complete the following steps to define a Windows printer to receive line or channel printer jobs into the spool.

To add a Windows printer, you must be a member of the Administrators group. If you are using Windows 2000, you can also be a member of the Printer Operators or Server Operators group or a Power User on a workstation.

  1. Open the Windows Add Printer Wizard.

  2. Select to define a local printer. Click Next.

  3. Create a new port selecting the Barr Spool Port.

  4. Enter the Port name. Click OK, and then click Next. The Configure Headers dialog box displays.

    Configure Headers Dialog Box

Include the port type and number in the port name so you can easily identify the ports later. To group all the Barr ports together in the ports list, include Barr as the first word of each port name.

  1. If you defined a printer that uses a Barr Spool port, you can preset the header field values for incoming spool files. Files routed to the spool with that spool port are assigned the specified header field values. The following table lists fields that users commonly want to preset and their location in the header. Configure the header field values, and then click OK. If you do not want to assign default values, click OK.

Description

Section

Field Name

Job name

Job Header General Section

NJHGJNAM

Form name

Data Set Header General Section

NDHGFORM

FCB name

Data Set Header General Section

NDHGFCB

Class

Data Set Header General Section

NDHGCLAS

Dest device

Data Set Header General Section

NDHGRMT

Priority

Job Header General Section

NJHGPRIO

Copies

Job Header General Section

NJHGJCPY

By default, the Job name (NJHGJNAM) field is assigned the FILENAME attribute. This will automatically store the document name as the job name.

  1. In the Manufacturers list, select Barr. In the Printers list, select the Barr EBCDIC - Printer Driver printer driver. Click Next.

  2. Select Keep existing driver. Click Next.

  3. Enter the Printer name as you want it to appear in the Windows Printers folder. Select No to indicate that this printer will not be used as the default Windows-based printer. Click Next.

Choose a name that helps you identify this Windows printer as one that receives jobs intended for line printers, such as Input for line printers.

  1. Choose whether or not this printer will be shared with other network users. If this printer will be shared, you will need to type a share name. Click Next.

To set up a printer for sharing, the printer and users who will access it must be in the same domain. You must assign corresponding printer permissions from the Security tab of the shared printer’s Properties dialog box.

  1. Choose whether or not to print a test page. Click Finish. The new Windows printer displays in the Printers folder. To define another printer, open the Printers folder and select Add Printers.

  2. Enable the 'Print directly to the printer' setting.

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