CICS has been happily conversing with TCPIP for several years. And so is IMS and DB2.
JES2 support is in the form of NJE over TCPIP instead of SNA as of Z/OS 1.7, but this is not documented. It missed the announcement letters. InfoPrint Server has two components called IP/Printway and NetSpool. NetSpool grabs your existing SNA printer stuff from applications like CICS and drops it into the JESx spool. Most of the time the applications do not need modification at all, but YMMV. IP/Printway is the component which grabs stuff out of the JESx spool and sends it on to TCPIP addressable printers. PSF can also send output to TCPIP addressable printers, but those must be IPDS capable stuff, like channel attached PSF printers. On Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Many moons ago, I worked at an OS/390 shop and we had to purchase VPSPrint, along with the CICS and JES components, because neither played well with TCP/IP, and we were converting away from SNA. >The products were not very expensive, THEN. >We just got a ridiculous price quote from LRS, through our out-sourcer, who was suppposed to have a deal/discount for us. > >So, we are looking at alternatives: >1. I have heard (but not read) that JES2 (at least) gets along better as of 1.7 (or is it 1.8?). >2. When does CICS cooperate? >3. I have looked through the 4-volume RedBook Collection 'Communications Server for z/OS V1R7 TCP/IP Implementation' and have found very little reference to JES. >4. Doesn't IBM have a (little liked) replacement called NTP Print (or something like that)? >5. Does anybody know where this stuff is documented? > > >- >-teD > >300,000 Kilometres per Second >Not only is it a good idea! >It's the LAW!!! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
