If you want more details, I can give more details but after 29 of Jan. I am away in vacation right now.
Mohamed Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 19, 2017, at 11:57 AM, retired mainframer <retired-mainfra...@q.com> > wrote: > > From dim memories of a conversion performed long ago: > > We changed printers from IBM to HP. We had to get a special interface > circuit that handled EBCDIC, PSF/AFP, and carriage control characters in > column 1. We also had to update a lot of pagedefs and formdefs to deal with > the differences in duplex printing. Since you are using the same printer, > hopefully this won't be an issue for you. > > We defined new printers and new Functional Subsystem in the JES > initialization deck. The Bus and Tag printers used proc APSWPROA. The > network ones use APWSPROT (which is where you specify the IP address in the > CNTL-PRINTDEV-ENDCNTL sequence of JCL statements). Both procs obviously > customized. > > We used the menu system built into the printer's little control display to > specify that the connection was TCPIP and what the address was. > > Since we were producing documents delivered to the customers, we did > parallel testing of every type of product output (e.g., OGL, DCF, Waterloo, > SAS/GRAPH, etc) as well as the mundane MSGCLASS=A for JCL listings. The > samples produced on the two printers had to line up pretty much exact. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On >> Behalf Of venkat kulkarni >> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 9:51 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: Mainframe printer connectivity >> >> Hello Group, >> >> Currently we are using mainframe printer with bus and tag connectivity with >> Xerox printer via prism hardware, which help us to convert fcion to bus and >> tag. >> >> But now, we would like to use tcpip connectivity for mainframe connectivity >> with Xerox printer. >> >> Can you please guide that how this new connectivity can be establish and do >> we need to buy any additional piece of hardware or software . I was reading >> about info print but didn't get much detail . > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
