Break the *PRTF 378 Character Limit with a Custom *WSCST
I had a situation where I was printing a PDF417 barcode to a SATO printer. The data for the barcode contained a name, an address, and other information and together it was longer than 378 characters. 378 is the maximum record length for a printer file. OS/400 printing services will insert a carriage return/linefeed (x’0D’/x’0A’) when 378 is reached. This x’0D’/x’0A’ skewed the PDF417 data. What I needed was a continuous stream of data. Changing the behavior of a printer…