On 1/22/08, Rich Juchniewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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> > >> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > >> (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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 >
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