Re: TCP/IP printing to PC printers

I don't know about CA/400 current offerings, however ....

IBM is enhancing the TCP/IP support in the AS/400 to 
support printers where previously they had only supported 
displays (as was the original intention of the client protocol 
they were using - so don't really blame them for that).

That functionality is available in V4R2 and IBM is planning 
(or so I am told - I am NOT an IBMer !!) to release the 
capability via PTF for earlier releases (v4r1, v3r7 and v3r2) 
with various time frames -- my information says v3r7 sooner 
than the others and in the near timeframe (again I am NOT 
an IBMer).

NOW CAUTION -- even though the support is available 
in the AS/400, the PC client software must support the 
function or you only have half a solution.  When that 
will be available in Client Access and what platforms 
-- I don't know.

Other vendors have a printer solution over TCP/IP 
that you can get today, but I really shouldn't comment on 
that (because I represent a vendor) so I won't.   If you 
have an installed base of CA/400 you wouldn't care 
anyway.

I personally don't like Anynet although I suppose there are 
several people using it - just my personal viewpoint which 
I won't elaborate on here since you are not using it anyway.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Preston Sights
Synapse Communications



> From:          "Jack Mullins" <jmullins@sundash.com>
> To:            <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Subject:       TCP/IP printing to PC printers
> Date:          Fri, 13 Mar 1998 09:02:10 -0600
> Reply-to:      MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com

> Hello All:
> 
> We're running V3R7 with networked PCs via TCP/IP and Windows95 as 
>workstations.  
> We want to be able to print to our PC printers from the AS/400.  
> We use CA for Windows95 and we're not running AnyNet.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> Jack Mullins
> Sun Industries, Inc.
> 2409 Industrial Drive
> Jonesboro, AR 72402
> http://www.sundash.com
> jmullins@sundash.com
> jmullins@ipa.net
> 
> 
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