It is my understanding that the question refers to CICS attached printers, so printing doesn't go to spool but CICS consider the printer as a type-3 terminal and "SEND" a map(s) to the printer. I believe that if the SNA address is defined in SNA server / M$ HIS, the address can be routed to a network printer (after converting ebcdic to ascii, etc.)
ITschak On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Barkow, Eileen <ebar...@doitt.nyc.gov>wrote: > Hi Jim, > > Re your comments on cics ip printers: > > CICS requires a VTAM netname - how do you define the printer to VTAM using > just the ip address? > Isn't there some special facilities needed to be setup in VTAM in order to > do this? > > > "Another alternative would be to define the IP printer to your PC as one of > the printers available to it. Then you would define your IP address in the > TN3270 Telnet Server with a printer session. So now when you sign onto CICS > with some 3270 emulator, you will have a terminal and printer session. Now > in CICS you need to update it with an appropriately defined terminal and > printer. If it all matches, you are running something like Attachmate, HOD, > PCOM, BlueZone, etc on the PC the print comes back to your PC and off it > goes to Windows Print Services and then off to the IP printer in your > network" > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Jim Marshall > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 4:25 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: CICS IP printer > > >hi , > >is there anyone knows a good and non-expensive way to define cics an IP > >printer. > You say an "IP Printer". This would imply you have some product which can > print from the JES2 Spool to the IP printer (maybe). If you do, then the > trick is > to get the CICS print onto the JES2 Spool. You can look at a number of > products LRS's DRS, MacKinney has one too, etc, which is a started task > which went the CICS application issues a VTAM ACQUIRE, it responds just > like > a printer, CICS App writes to the printer and the product talks like a > printer > putting the output onto the spool with some DEST= value. > > Another alternative would be to define the IP printer to your PC as one of > the > printers available to it. Then you would define your IP address in the > TN3270 > Telnet Server with a printer session. So now when you sign onto CICS with > some 3270 emulator, you will have a terminal and printer session. Now in > CICS > you need to update it with an appropriately defined terminal and printer. > If it > all matches, you are running something like Attachmate, HOD, PCOM, > BlueZone, etc on the PC the print comes back to your PC and off it goes to > Windows Print Services and then off to the IP printer in your network. > > There are many ways to couch this capability and just depends on what you > already have. If you have nothing then, I would like at the MacKinney > products and it may become clear how it could be engineered. If you want to > chat offlist, let me know. > > jim > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
