>hi , >is there anyone knows a good and non-expensive way to define cics an IP >printer. You say an "IP Printer". This would imply you have some product which can print from the JES2 Spool to the IP printer (maybe). If you do, then the trick is to get the CICS print onto the JES2 Spool. You can look at a number of products LRS's DRS, MacKinney has one too, etc, which is a started task which went the CICS application issues a VTAM ACQUIRE, it responds just like a printer, CICS App writes to the printer and the product talks like a printer putting the output onto the spool with some DEST= value.
Another alternative would be to define the IP printer to your PC as one of the printers available to it. Then you would define your IP address in the TN3270 Telnet Server with a printer session. So now when you sign onto CICS with some 3270 emulator, you will have a terminal and printer session. Now in CICS you need to update it with an appropriately defined terminal and printer. If it all matches, you are running something like Attachmate, HOD, PCOM, BlueZone, etc on the PC the print comes back to your PC and off it goes to Windows Print Services and then off to the IP printer in your network. There are many ways to couch this capability and just depends on what you already have. If you have nothing then, I would like at the MacKinney products and it may become clear how it could be engineered. If you want to chat offlist, let me know. jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
