Re: PSF and non AFP printer
From: Howard Turetzky howard.turet...@infoprint.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Fri, May 6, 2011 3:39:26 PM Subject: Re: PSF and non AFP printer You might consider plans to replace your 6262. It was withdrawn from service in 2007, and while parts may still be available from third parties it will be more difficult to service and support the machine. If you need an impact printer that can be driven by PSF, consider the Infoprint 6500 or Printronix 7000. These are dot-matrix printers up to 2000 lines/minute with an option for TCP/IP IPDS support, so it can be started/stopped, back/forward spaced, and you get IPDS error recovery. With PSF you can use the Line Mode Migration feature to use your existing FCBs without the need to change job JCL. Howard Turetzky Ricoh Production Print Solutions -SNIP-- Howard: I do not have experience with the printers you mentioned. However, IBM had *LOTS* of issues with PSF its printers *WITH* backspacing and forward spacing. I have the scars to prove it. My memory says I am responsible for 50 APARS to fix PSF Jes2 problems with forward/backward spacing printers. I think that is when the grey hair started to come in. I honestly would hate to get in a match betwen IBM (you name the product) trying to point fingers at software issues. I have the scars to prove that at least even with IBM printers it was messy. The printers you speak of may be perfectly OK but when you get into a match between IBM software and your printers I think its a lost cause, personallly. The people at PSF level two were ready for me to queue up a PMR (or two or three) the same day. I was on a first name basis with them and they were great people and they did not like me calling as they knew I had a bug and it was going to be work to get it corrected. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: PSF and non AFP printer
You might consider plans to replace your 6262. It was withdrawn from service in 2007, and while parts may still be available from third parties it will be more difficult to service and support the machine. If you need an impact printer that can be driven by PSF, consider the Infoprint 6500 or Printronix 7000. These are dot-matrix printers up to 2000 lines/minute with an option for TCP/IP IPDS support, so it can be started/stopped, back/forward spaced, and you get IPDS error recovery. With PSF you can use the Line Mode Migration feature to use your existing FCBs without the need to change job JCL. Howard Turetzky Ricoh Production Print Solutions On Thu, 5 May 2011 10:12:48 -0400, Roberto Halais roberto.hal...@gmail.com wrote: Listers: We have an IBM 6262 mod D22 impact printer that was converted from bus/tag to coax. We have connected the printer to the coax side of a protocol converter box and the tcp/ip side of the converter box to our mainframe. What we want to do is print using PSF but the printer does not support AFP format data. The question is: Can I use PSF to print to a non afp printer or do I need to use another software product. Thank you for any hints/help. Roberto Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Denis Diderot -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: PSF and non AFP printer
Check out Infoprint Server instead of PSF to send non-AFP files to a printer. With the optional transforms, you can even convert AFP into PDF, Postscript, or PCL. --Roger On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Roberto Halais roberto.hal...@gmail.comwrote: Listers: We have an IBM 6262 mod D22 impact printer that was converted from bus/tag to coax. We have connected the printer to the coax side of a protocol converter box and the tcp/ip side of the converter box to our mainframe. What we want to do is print using PSF but the printer does not support AFP format data. The question is: Can I use PSF to print to a non afp printer or do I need to use another software product. Thank you for any hints/help. Roberto Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Denis Diderot -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: PSF and non AFP printer
Since your IBM 6262 printer is now TCP/IP-attached, have you tried sending it a small test job using z/OS's LPR command? - - - - - Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect Value Creation Complex Deals Team IBM Growth Markets (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
