The information in the following table helps you to solve errors that can occur during printing:
| What happens | What it means | What to do |
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You issue the PRINT command from
the command line or a function key and see the message:
GDDM printer nickname is required for PRINTER. |
The object you are trying to print needs a printer name, and no printer name default exists in your profile. | Press the Enter key again to display a prompt panel on which you can enter a printer name and other print parameters. You can set a printer name default in your profile to avoid being prompted. |
| After using the CONNECT command, your PRINT commands result in the message described, or your printed output goes to a different printer. | The CONNECT command replaces your own profile values with those of the user you connected to. | After connecting, remember to enter: SET PROFILE (PRINTER=prtname from the command line to establish your printer name as the default. |
| You issue several PRINT commands but find that only the last object is printed. | Your output data set does not have a disposition of MOD, so each PRINT operation reopens the data set and overwrites the previous contents. | Change the disposition of your output data set to MOD. You cannot use the disposition MOD with a member of a regioned data set. |
| You print a QMF object and see unexpected control characters in the printed output or data set. | The device token or PROCOPT you are using does not match the device on which you are actually printing. | Supply the correct device token,
or reduce control characters to a minimum by one of these techniques:
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When printing a report, table,
SQL or QBE query, procedure, or profile, you see the message:
File DSQPRINT did not open. |
No printer name default exists in your profile, and no DSQPRINT data set or system output is currently allocated. | Allocate DSQPRINT before issuing a print command. |
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Reminder: If you allocate output from DSQDEBUG to go to the HOLD queue, to release the output to the OUTPUT queue you must issue the following TSO command: FREE DDNAME(DSQDEBUG) |
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