LRS provides a report of printer use, if you are collecting the SMF, If you don't have 13 months of data then make sure to sample month end, quarter end and year end processing dates... if not, you may miss some limited use printers.
On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > All I want for Xmas is the answer to the question of how many. ;-) We have > over 12K (!) VPS definitions, but... > > 1. Many of those are multiple entries for the same physical device with > varying format attributes like double-sided, landscape, two-up, etc. For > example, one device I picked at random has 13 entries representing various > attributes. > > 2. We have added innumerable printers over the decades. I was never 'the > VPS guy', but I suspect that very few if any obsolete entries were deleted. > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Steve Beaver > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 6:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: (External):Re: LRS VPS Printer Replacment > > How many printers are on your system? The system I had had 1400 printers > > Sent from my iPhone > > Sorry for the autocorrect issues > > > On Dec 14, 2017, at 19:34, Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 14 December 2017 at 18:18, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks for all the responses. I compiled a list of the products > mentioned together with 'ratings' and comments. I was surprised at the > volume of NPF endorsements; I didn't even know about it. A lot of us choose > a product for a particular purpose and stop window shopping, never > realizing that the landscape is constantly evolving. > > > > There are also several potential solutions to this general problem on > > the CBTTAPE site, either on the main "tape" or on the JES2 "mods" > > tape. Naturally these are unsupported, and may or may not work on > > current levels of JES2, but certainly the price is right. And some of > > them are not unsophisticated solutions at all. > > > > Tony H. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Keith Smith Engineer-Enterprise Sys Sr.-IT Capacity & Performance Shaw Industries Inc. Subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway 616 E Walnut Ave Mail Drop 072-04 Dalton, GA 30721 Email: [email protected] Office: 706.532.3244 Please consider the environment before printing. -- ********************************************************** Privileged and/or confidential information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or are not responsible for delivery of this message to that person) , you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and notify the sender by reply e-mail. If you or your employer do not consent to Internet e-mail for messages of this kind, please advise the sender. Shaw Industries does not provide or endorse any opinions, conclusions or other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of the company or its subsidiaries. ********************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
