Hi Gilbert,
I have installed and supported VPS/VPSIP/DRS/DRSIP/VSV and VMCF in my shop since 1998. As David mentioned, VPS exit 8 handles automated reset/retries quite well, it is well documented, and can be easily customized if needed . We have the same problem you have plus the vast majority of our customers' printers are multi-host, so there are plenty of times when the customer printer is busy and we have to retry as well. We deliver to both LPD and SOKs printers (we don't have SNA anymore), and lots of different brands/models. Printer status messages are produced for everything happening with/for the printer. The status messages go to a log, a dataset, syslog, some combination, or they can be suppressed by local installation setup. I run all messages to the log, but I do suppress a few from the console I have always had excellent support from the vendor. HTH, Linda Mooney ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gilbert Cardenas" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:02:53 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: Monitor lpr printer on Windows from Mainframe We don't have SA or DRS/TCPIP but if there is a VPS exit that can do this automatically then I will definitely let the VPS administrator look into this to see if we can use this instead. Thanks for all the suggestions, Gil. On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:45:28 -0500, David Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: >On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 11:09 -0500, Gilbert Cardenas wrote: >> We use VPS to route print from the mainframe to the windows server >> and when the server goes down for maintenance etc, the vps printer >> goes into an error status cause it can't communicate with the printer. >> I can't rely on the network folks to communicate what they are doing to >> me so I really need this to be automated. > >What do you need automated? VPS provides an exit point (#8) that you >can use to selectively retry failed connections. > >-- >David Andrews >A. Duda and Sons, Inc. >[email protected] > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
