Re: 400 printing over a WAN

What problem are you trying to solve?  What are your goals?

To be able to print to these printers from PC's and your mainframe?
IF this is your goal, (IF).  Then there are a couple different ways
around this.  Study 'NetServer'.  This will allow PC's (of the Wintel
variety at least) to select these printers just as if they were any
other Windows printer.
There should be some way, if you're already connecting your mainframe
and their 400, to configure remote printers to share between the mainframe
and the 400.

If the goal is to trash the 400 but keep the printers (I'll avoid the
argument as to why you need a drug test) then there are a couple of
things you can do there.  See if the IBM 5494 control unit, (or compatible
marketed by Perle) will configure to the mainframe.  Or, there are many
protocol converters out there that can convert printers from twinax to
3270 or lan (more versatile).




                                                                                
                                         
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Hello all.
Need some advise - integrating a newly purchased company into our network.
That shop uses an AS/400 with threee printers attached locally thru a
twinax hub.  All printers are IPDS, mix of hardware types.

Our goal is to run IP only across the WAN.  If this were a 3270 type
situation, we'd normally put some PU 2 controller out there and Data Link
Switch it back to corporate.  Alas - this is not 3270.

Any thoughts?  thanks much.

Scott Burgin
USA Group
Network Services





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