RSCS offers: 1) vastly superior queue management
2) forms processing support 3) print channel support 4) familiar interface for mainframe ops and automation. 5) higher level of scalability Linux offers: 1) ability to convert page description languages -- for example, adding Postscript capability to every printer in the network via ghostscript, which converts the PS input to rasterized PCL or other PDLs. 2) out of the box ability to support manipulation of job options (2 up, 4 up, rotation, etc) w/o a lot of programming. 3) some desktop applications don't cope well with a standards-compliant LPD like the one in RSCS; they want the lax Unix behavior. Few desktop applications test against RSCS as an LPD. 4) ability to easily add direct Windows visibility of print queues via Samba (route the output from Linux through RSCS to get the best of both worlds). I recommend both in tandem. Each solution provides some nifty features that the other one doesn't. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates > What would Linux/390 as a print server do for you over RSCS with IP > connections? > > Yes, I do recognize that you do need to print from Linux, but > what are the > other benefits that Linux has over RSCS? Or in conjunction with RSCS? > > Right now, my mind is bound by what you can do with VM and > VSE systems. > Perhaps there is new stuff that I havn't even heard about, much less > considered.
