How about a CICS program which will read a CICS TDQ whenever
something is put into it, and write it to the JES output queue, in a
particular otuput class, with a destination?
We have an assembler program which is defined as a CICS program
and has an associated transaction. CICS programs write to the appropriate
TDQ, causing it to "trigger", the program reads it, gets DEST from the
info in the TDQ, and writes it to the JES Queue. Once there we use
MacKinney's JQP product to send it on its way to IP Printers. This is the
cheapest way we found to write CICS to IP Printers. The only VTAM we have
left is the minimum to run zOS.
I can provide the ASM code if someone wants it, just eMail me....
(about 15 minutes of disclaimers inserted here).
"Barkow, Eileen" <[email protected]>
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I found out some more about this from the network people.
Apparently, the lus names defined to listen in on a particular port can be
defined to TN3270 and then to VTAM as applids, with the
appropriate logmode specified for printers. But only 3287 printers are
supported directly by TN3270.
Code would have to be written to support printer types other then 3287;
hence the need for products such as VPS/IP.
-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Itschak Mugzach
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:32 PM
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Subject: Re: CICS IP printer
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
<[email protected]>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:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Jim Marshall
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 4:25 PM
> To: [email protected]
> 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
>
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