What does the XAUTOQ option do?

Question:

What is the XAUTOQ option for in the "Destination options" parameter in the OUTQ configuration on the AS/400?

Answer:

The XAUTOQ feature is new to OS 400, although PTFs can be applied for earlier release versions of the operating system. The XAUTOQ option saves problems with timeouts on print jobs.

Here is how it works: If the printer times out during data transformation, after accepting a printer job and before requesting to send print data, LPR uses AS/400 LPD to receive the transformed spool file back into the same queue. LPR signals success to the remote writer, and the spool file is processed again without time-out because it is already in final form. No extra remote writers are started and LPD is used only for the larger spool files because smaller ones will not cause a time-out.

XAUTOQ is added via the following PTFs and is described in the V3R7 TCP/IP Configuration and Reference manual.

V3R1 SF32690

V3R2 SF35739

V3R6 SF35936

V3R7 SF36102