Comments on: AS400 query print landscape/legal?

By: kathyink

kathyink — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:07:56 +0000

If I had found this earlier I would not have dried up my ink cartridges running test after test to try and do it right. Thank you for the information, you saved my day.

By: kasmcc

kasmcc — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:24:39 +0000

If I need to print a query on different size paper, I put the query into a CL program and include the page layout in the program

E.g.
PGM

/* MONITOR FOR ALL ERRORS */
             MONMSG     MSGID(CPF0000)

/* SUBMIT QRYS TO PRINT Plan Volume Report */
             OVRPRTF    FILE(QPQUPRFIL) PAGESIZE(70 150) CPI(13.3) +
                          OVRFLW(69) OUTQ(QUSRSYS/PRT01) FORMTYPE(*STD) +
                          HOLD(*NO) SAVE(*YES) USRDTA(AUTUMN)

             RUNQRY     QRY(QRYPROGS/DAY36A)

             DLTOVR     FILE(*ALL)

ENDPGM

Hope this helps

By: lilarose

lilarose — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:47:58 +0000

The runqry command has the same options as the Query itself, so there was no way to indicate legal size paper to print on. I found a work-around by sending it to the spoolfile, and from there to set the drawer # on the printer. That forced it to go to legal size paper when printing. It’s not pretty but it got the job done.
Thanks for the help.

By: charliebrowne

charliebrowne — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:51:29 +0000

If you are doing a RUNQRY command, you can prompt on that and set your Printer file specs

By: lilarose

lilarose — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:54:42 +0000

Thanks, but the query is going to be run interactively over existing files, so I won’t have any input into the file format the query runs over. I did try the form size option, but it still wouldn’t go landscape on legal.