Hans-Ole

Something else you might try is DSCOPY. I did a quick test copying a
vplus forms file from a 957 to a 932 running the copy on a 932. FCOPY
took 107 cpusecs and 322 wall secs; DSCOPY took .172 cpusecs and 6 wall
secs. Yes that's one-hundred-seven vs point one-seven-two. Formsfile was
10000, 256 byte records.

John Zoltak
North American Mfg Co

-----Original Message-----
From: Hans-Ole Kaae [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 2:04 PM
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Subject: [HP3000-L] Need help re. file-transfer via DS-line


Hello good listers,

I need some advice re. a performance issue. I do hope someone out there
has
a clue and the time to help me.

We have 2 HP 3000s linked together via an ISDN-network, a production-HP
3000
and a test-HP 3000. Normally you log on the the machine you want to,
transfer files to and from - and normally all works very fine and
performing
splendidly.

Lately, we came across the idea to transfer some spoolfiles from one
system
to the other. The users are doing some Y2K-testing on one machine (the
remote test-machine), but want their testprint locally of course. While
this
is "plain vanilla" for IP-addressed printers, e.g. HP LaserJets with
JetDirect cards/boxes and HP Native Print - the trouble is at the
HP2563-printers, serially connected to the "production machine".

So we created a dummy printer-device on the test-machine. A job then
waits
for a spoolfile to occur on the test HP 3000, issues a file-eq like
:FILE
LPXX=YYYY#LPXX;cctl where YYYY is the name of the remote node and LPXX
is
the device(class) of the printer. Then a DS-line is opened and a :REMOTE
HELLO is issued in the job. Next it's easy to to a :FCOPY
FROM=Ozzzz.OUT.HPSPOOL;TO=*LPXX

This concept works; but it is incredibly slow! This slowness can not be
related to the 64 kbit/s ISDN-link - doing a simple :COPY is thousands
of
times faster.

1) Has anybody tried this before - with similar experience - and do you
have
a work-around?

2) Can you imagine a smarter solution to the problem. While this works
as
described, it's a bit "heavy".


Thank you very much,

- and with kind regards,


/Hans-Ole

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