I agree that having a virtual printer feature may not be very useful.
I wonder, though, if a feature to create virtual tape in AWSTAPE format,
either on a remote PC or on the mainframe itself as a file, would be useful.
When we ran z/OS under FLEX-ES, we had the capability to run z/OS jobs that
created and/or read virtual tape files in the server's file system (UnixWare
in our case) in either "fake-tape" format (proprietary to FLEX-ES) or
AWSTAPE format. The z/OS JCL had no knowledge that it was using virtual
tape. This made it easy for remote developers to create and test product
tapes, for example, without needing someone physically on-site to mount
tapes -- since the z/OS system usually ran unattended. Once all testing was
done, we would run a job to create an actual tape from the "fake-tape".
It seems that the framework of the MFNetDisk product could be suitable for
implementing such a feature. Just a thought.
Thanks,
...Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "shai hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: I want to add virtual printer to my MFNetDisk, Any value?
HI,
Yes, I understand that virtual printers is not needed in the MF
environment.
Thanks,
Shai
On 1/21/08, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/18/2008
at 01:03 PM, Shai Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I want to add a small feature which I call it virtual MF printer.
Why?
> This will enable MVS user to print to MVS virtual printer any MVS file.
What's wrong with the support already in JES2 and JES3?
> My question is if this feature in MFNetDisk is required or not?
I see no need for it. Just write SYSOUT data sets.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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