Because there are holes in the CUPS theory.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Chris Hoelscher
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2019 11:40 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Personal Communications Printer Session
What about CUPS?
That question just
What about CUPS?
That question just doesn't hold water ..
--
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
What about CUPS?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of
Timothy Sipples
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 2:17 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Personal Communications Printer
I agree with Tim Hare's suggestion. If you can arrange for z/OS to drive
the printers directly, that'd be best. I'll list out some of these direct
options first, in no particular order, plus another potentially attractive
option using Linux on Z in partnership with z/OS:
1. The base z/OS operating
I don't know of a list to discuss PComm but if these printers support IP
printing (either direct socket or LPD protocol) - and most do these days - you
can define the IP address or host/domain name in something like VPS or
Infoprint and eliminate the need for the 3270 printer emulation session
We have an old Windows server running an old version of Rumba. It is only used
to emulate two printers connected via IP.
The new version is apparently very cost prohibitive so I thought we could use
Personal Communications to replace it.
We use it for our console sessions and I have no problem d
