programmatically restart printers in end status

[as400boy]

Hello All,
sometimes, users call me that a printer is in end... i just call wrkwtr and with option 1 in the printer, it restart... is there an api, that could help me to cycle all the printers, check the status and eventually restart it?

thanx in advance

[Scott Klement]

Re: programmatically restart printers in end status

In my previous job, I wrote a CL program that would run the ENDWTR, VRYCFG and STRPRTWTR commands to end a writer, vary the device off, vary it back on and restart it. This program accepted the device name as a parameter, so it could be run on any device.

When our users were having trouble with a writer not responding, they'd simply run this program and restart it.

Maybe something like that would work for you, too?

[CaptainRon]

Scott Klement, can you send me this program? I think this will work for what I want to do.

[Scott Klement]

This was code from a previous job, I no longer have access to it. But, I've already explained the commands that I ran... surely you can put them together to make a CL program?