I got the impression that before shuffling data centers in 2007, we were among the few customers still using (ESCON) channel attached printers. The printers moved 100+ kilometers from the PSF host, so we were forced to convert them to TCP/IP. We had experienced several printer problems over the preceding years and eventually learned that our 'conservative' policy of sticking with what worked actually had the opposite result. We had become one of only a handful of customers still using ESCON, hence a minimal user base to report problems.
Nowadays modern z systems have no ESCON channels, and the printers have no FICON interface. I was in John's well-attended session when he asked the question. If there are still ESCON-dependent customers out there, they probably don't attend SHARE. ;-) . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 7:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Anyone Using...PSF-Managed, Channel-Attached Printers? It's been kind of a long time--decades, in fact--since anyone we know of has made a channel-attached printer that can be managed by the Print Services Facility (PSF) product. We don't even know of any that can be FICON-attached. Anyone still have one? If so, I'd like to hear from you (e-mail address is below). I asked this at SHARE, and two people raised their hands. Later, we found one hadn't understood the question and the other was actually using a JES-managed line mode printer. (Note: This has nothing to do with JES-managed printers or network-attached printers! The question is only about PSF-managed printers that are channel-attached.) Thanks... -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
