Delete Pending Jobs in AS400

[Former Member]

Hi,

Can anyone help me in deleting pending jobs in AS400 for a particular output device.

Also please guide me how to restart a printer in AS400.

Thanks,

Sailesh K

[RichHeilman · Accepted solution]

Hi, assuming you have some AS400 experience, log on to the AS400. At the command line, enter the command WrkOutQ and hit F4, enter the name of the output queue and hit enter, here is the print jobs in the queue, enter "4" next to each and hit enter to delete.

Restarting printers? This depends on how the printers are implemented, in my system they are "Remote Writers" , so I can enter...

EndWtr Wtr(<write_name>) Option(*Immed)

Now to start it, refer to the output queue and start the writer like so..

StrRmtWtr OutQ(<outq_name)

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Rich,

Thanks for your useful information.

We also user remote writers.

On restarting printers, will there be any effect on the system. Also, will there be any consequence.

Thanks,

Sailesh K

[RichHeilman · Accepted solution]

Not that I know of, I do it from time to time, and no problems. I usually have to do it when the printouts are not coming out of the printer, something gets screwed up between SAP>AS400>Printer, so I just END the writer and STR it back up. Usually fixes the problem.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Rich,

Thanks a lot. I have run that and its over now.

Thanks for you speedy response.

Regards,

Sailesh K