Re: Mainframe to AS/400 printing

Mark,

We have a similar environment here with no MVS....VM and VSE only....We do
this now for a select group of folks who have printers only attached to the
S/390.  I use an auto start job under a subsystem BCHSYSJOBS that wakes up
every five minutes to see if there is anything in a specific OUTQ on the
AS/400.  If it finds something, I send over to the mainframe Power Queue via
CA's XCOM product and their SENDREPORT command.  Tried NJE and that was a
real pain in the a-- compared to the SENDREPORT via the XCOM product and it
uses the existing comm link for transferring files back and forth between
them using XCOM!

Given that you have MVS, there should be some TCP/IP capabilities
there....Have you looking into what it would take to do IP LPR/LPD  printing
from MVS?  That may be the quickest way to get this up and going working
with existing products.  I do not have that as an option here with just VM
and VSE.

HTH

Mike Shaw
Senior AS/400 Tech Support
North American Mortgage Company
Santa Rosa, CA
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sweeney <MSweeney@DLT.state.ri.us>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, May 20, 1999 7:51 AM
Subject: Mainframe to AS/400 printing


> I have 2 AS/400 and an IBM mainframe(s390) locally and a
>remote IBM mainframe. We have 2210 routers and a Xerox laser printer, run
>both token ring and Ethernet and all talk to each other. My question is
>this. Can I pass AS400 print jobs to the mainframes and vise versa. The
>remote mainframe runs VM, VSE, MVS and AFP to a Xerox printer. Locally we
>run on the mainframe VM, VSE to Xerox printer. AS400 run 4.1.0.
> We also have  SNA server in the network which currently is
>able to print both 400 and local mainframe printouts.
> Your help and comments would be appreciated.
>
> Mark Sweeney
> ISD Tech Support
> 101 Friendship St.
> Providence, RI 02903
> (401) 222-3541
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