Does anyone really still channel attach printers to VM systems?? I thought MVS stole them all a long time ago!
Marcy Cortes This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: VM/ESA and z/VM Discussions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:00 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VMESA-L] Unified printing... > "...everyone has it..." > > Yeah, but... > > It is my eventual goal to get my RSCS configuration down to > LPR-only printers, (I have a few SNA connected remote line > printers) since I can then run RSCS without license fees for > IBM. If RSCS were to control all printing, even channel > attached printers, will I ever be able to save that sizable > chunk of cash? Well, obviously I don't speak for IBM, but I'd think there's a case to be made that the "new" line driver to control/manage channel-attached printers should be part of the no-charge RSCS license, especially if all it's doing is issuing the appropriate (and already existing) CP commands to start and stop channel-attached devices. There's minimal new function or code to be added, and the existing IP-printers-only RSCS license is already using all the features that would be necessary here. I suppose it would be possible to add this as a user-written mod, but I'd really like IBM to do this -- IMHO, it would clean up a loose end that's been sitting for quite a while, and with the announcement of IBM Director for CMS, I'd think this would be fewer things to implement there (and document). That's one reason why I'm suggesting using RSCS in this way -- it's a fairly minor bit of coding to gain a fairly major (IMHO) usability improvement for newbies. Any other way to go about this would be a lot more work. -- db
