Re: Light Weight Printing from Development z/OS 1.8 to HP Laser Jets

2008-12-30 Thread Chauhan, Jasbir
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:

Re: Light Weight Printing from Development z/OS 1.8 to HP Laser Jets

2008-12-30 Thread Rugen, Len
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,

Re: Light Weight Printing from Development z/OS 1.8 to HP Laser Jets

2008-12-30 Thread Ted MacNEIL
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!

Re: Light Weight Printing from Development z/OS 1.8 to HP Laser Jets

2008-12-30 Thread Rugen, Len
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

Re: Light Weight Printing from Development z/OS 1.8 to HP Laser Jets

2008-12-30 Thread Ed Finnell
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

Re: Light Weight Printing from Development z/OS 1.8 to HP Laser Jets

2008-12-30 Thread Ron Wells
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

Re: Light Weight Printing from Development z/OS 1.8 to HP Laser Jets

2008-12-30 Thread Roger Bolan
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