Re: Light Weight Printing from Development z/OS 1.8 to HP Laser Jets
Hi Ed, take a look at JES Report Broker (JRB) at MacKinney.com Inexpensive and pretty robust product. Regards, Jasbir Chauhan -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Long Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Light Weight Printing from Development z/OS 1.8 to HP Laser Jets Hi all and Happy New Year. I'd like to setup a facility whereby I can print directly from JES2 to an HP Laser Jet type printer without dedicating a printer, buying a printer, or spending time I don't have in INFOPRINT jail. What do you do for z/OS printing in a development context? The requirement is to be able to print small listings locally and conveniently. The difference between today, where we FTP the listing to a PC and print, and tomorrow, is that I want the carriage control characters to be honored. I define small as less than 5000 lines per report and maybe 5 reports per day. I've spent several lovely hours cruising the INFOPRINT website and getting reacquainted with PSF, AFP, and their cousins. Most of this technology qualifies as gross overkill for my needs. I did not see anything directly on point that could be considered lightweight. Is there an easy way to tell Jes2 about a TCPIP connected printer and to have the printer respond to basic CC commands? No fancy forms or checks to be printed, just short reports. Thanks for your ideas, comments, and grand one liners. Edward Long -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Light Weight Printing from Development z/OS 1.8 to HP Laser Jets
IBM had something called Network Print Facility, which I thought had been stabilized, but I found a book that looks current at http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1G310/CCON TENTS?DT=20080717140341 It had 1 good feature, it was free. We had it working several years ago, probably late 90's. Len Rugen -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Long Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 2:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Light Weight Printing from Development z/OS 1.8 to HP Laser Jets Hi all and Happy New Year. I'd like to setup a facility whereby I can print directly from JES2 to an HP Laser Jet type printer without dedicating a printer, buying a printer, or spending time I don't have in INFOPRINT jail. What do you do for z/OS printing in a development context? The requirement is to be able to print small listings locally and conveniently. The difference between today, where we FTP the listing to a PC and print, and tomorrow, is that I want the carriage control characters to be honored. I define small as less than 5000 lines per report and maybe 5 reports per day. I've spent several lovely hours cruising the INFOPRINT website and getting reacquainted with PSF, AFP, and their cousins. Most of this technology qualifies as gross overkill for my needs. I did not see anything directly on point that could be considered lightweight. Is there an easy way to tell Jes2 about a TCPIP connected printer and to have the printer respond to basic CC commands? No fancy forms or checks to be printed, just short reports. Thanks for your ideas, comments, and grand one liners. Edward Long -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Light Weight Printing from Development z/OS 1.8 to HP Laser Jets
IBM had something called Network Print Facility, which I thought had been stabilized It's now called the IP/Print Gateway. I've had no direct experience with it; it's supposed to have scalability problems. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Light Weight Printing from Development z/OS 1.8 to HP Laser Jets
it's supposed to have scalability problems. Good, I'm glad to know that was a feature :-) Actually, for jobs of reasonable size, say under 25-50 pages and infrequent enough that the printer could rest a few minutes every few jobs, we didn't have any scalability issues. It uses lpr/lpq and from what I remember, that protocol can just go to sleep for a few minutes on a printer. If your arrival rate is too high when that occurs, you can't catch up. 90% of our problems were the same old printer issues, unpluged, off, out of paper, gone, firewalled, it never ends and it doesn't matter what software is driving them. Len Rugen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Light Weight Printing from Development z/OS 1.8 to HP Laser Jets
In a message dated 12/30/2008 2:14:41 P.M. Central Standard Time, rdhm...@prodigy.net writes: z/OS printing in a development context? HELP LPR? If it's connected to a server LPR dsn_name HOST hostname PRINTER prtname. Otherwise have to do the printer setup to know IP address and printername. It honors line commands and will if requested convert to POSTSCRIPT. For JCL OUTPUT DEST='IP:ip_addr' **One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dpicid=aolcom40vanityncid=emlcntaolcom0025) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Light Weight Printing from Development z/OS 1.8 to HP Laser Jets
Try MacKinney JQP --- inexpensive and works ..IP and SNA printers -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the sender, which may be legally privileged information. This information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity addressed above. If you are not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of the E-mail or attached files is strictly prohibited. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Light Weight Printing from Development z/OS 1.8 to HP Laser Jets
Ed, Since you say you have TCPIP already, you might try something like this for a light weight solution: LPRSET techp...@9.17.108.37 lpr 'SERVE2.BOLAN.P71900.H2.TEMP2.PDF' ( binary Where LPRSET defines the printer IP address to TCPIP for you and the lpr command passes the data to the printer. The above works for me with a printer that can process PDF directly.Check the help for the TCPIP LPR command for options. It does have an option for handling carriage control. As your needs grow, then move to Infoprint Server or PSF. --Roger IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 12/30/2008 01:14:16 PM: Hi all and Happy New Year. I'd like to setup a facility whereby I can print directly from JES2 to an HP Laser Jet type printer without dedicating a printer, buying a printer, or spending time I don't have in INFOPRINT jail. What do you do for z/OS printing in a development context? The requirement is to be able to print small listings locally and conveniently. The difference between today, where we FTP the listing to a PC and print, and tomorrow, is that I want the carriage control characters to be honored. I define small as less than 5000 lines per report and maybe 5 reports per day. I've spent several lovely hours cruising the INFOPRINT website and getting reacquainted with PSF, AFP, and their cousins. Most of this technology qualifies as gross overkill for my needs. I did not see anything directly on point that could be considered lightweight. Is there an easy way to tell Jes2 about a TCPIP connected printer and to have the printer respond to basic CC commands? No fancy forms or checks to be printed, just short reports. Thanks for your ideas, comments, and grand one liners. Edward Long -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
