> Has anyone ever set up a Token Ring network on > VM/TCPIP in order to drive a 6262 printer that is > defined as a COAX attached printer on a VSE guest > machine. As this is all new to me, I am trying to find > the piece I need to put the network together. > Any help or examples that anyone is will ing to share > would be most helpful.
I'm not sure this is possible. If the printer is currently defined as a attached device over coax, it's got some kind of 3x74 in front of it, which is not IP-capable, and I don't know of any other way to drive a coax-attached 6262 (I've seen network-enabled print boxes for 3287s, but I don't think the 6262 works the same way, and they are *really* expensive). If you have remote 3x74s, you'll either need to do SNA to drive them, or replace the printers as described below. Do they need the impact capability, or just a remote output device? If just a remote output device, replace the printer with a large PostScript-capable laser printer, which will be cheaper to operate/maintain anyway, and lots faster. The supplied RSCS PostScript support is sufficient to do a good job at replacing the 6262 functions if you take the time to define forms and form definitions for RSCS. If they really need the impact capability, replace the printer with a high-speed serial or parallel ASCII line printer (Florida Data still makes them) and use a LPD-capable standalone print server to drive it. Again, RSCS can handle this type of setup pretty well. For the VSE side, define the printers with the ,VM option and put SPOOL entries into the CP directory entry at those addresses. Before you IPL VSE, IPL CMS, SPOOL the devices at those addresses to RSCS and tag them appropriately, and then IPL VSE. As a side note, if you don't have to preserve remote 3x74s, get rid of the token-ring stuff ASAP by specifying Ethernet for the new print servers. It'll cut the cost of the new hardware by a factor of 10 or so. Drop me a note offlist if you want to discuss this in more detail. -- db
