Gil, Now that you explained why you would like to use NJE, have you thought about alternatives?
For example: Do you have TCP/IP-attached laser printers in the office, HP laser printers or high-speed copiers with IP-interface? If so, do you have VPS or any other mainframe software that allows printing of mainframe reports on IP printers? Assuming, of course, that the reports are not millions of lines or AFP-format, requiring 3900-class printers and/or special size paper, how about this: Use XMITIP[1] to convert the report to a PDF file (with optional green-bar page background) and email it to the user. The user can then decide if on-line viewing on the PC is sufficient and/or print all or selected pages to a network / PC - printer. Might save a tree or two, and a lot of time waiting for report delivery ... Until you do find a workable solution, how about charging the users a fee for each special report handling request? $5 per request, perhaps? (Just kidding) Regards, Ulrich Krueger [1] Shameless plug: XMITIP and TXT2PDF by Lionel Dyck is software to send Email from the mainframe, with or without attached files in a variety of file formats. And the price is unbeatable: Free. See http://www.lbdsoftware.com/tcpip.html -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gilbert Cardenas Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 13:38 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Transfer reports from lpar to lpar On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:02:28 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Asked and answered. The OP's local sysprogs don't like NJE for some >reason, have not implemented it, and (according to the OP) will not do >so. Politics was suggested as the underlying reason. > The reason I think they don't want to open the NJE capability is that they don't want people transferring reports that were created on the development/qa regions to the production region where the reports could get out to our customers by mistake. Unfortunately, all the high speed printers are on the production lpar so occassionaly a "test" report does need to be transferred to the production region for printing. Don't laugh but we are still bus and tag attached. They would rather me do it on an as-needed basis, however, the requests are getting too frequent and taking up too much of my time. I would think that there are security measures that would allow only certain individuals or groups the ability to use the nje feature and not make it generally available to everyone. I am hoping that with all the information I received (thanks to Brian Westerman for sending me the share document) that I can convince them into taking another look at setting up the NJE. It definitely looks like a time saver. Regards, Gil. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
