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- From: M20923@MBVM.Mitre.Org (Daniel Sorensen)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: Remote printing from JES2 spool
- Message-ID: <16896CA7D.M20923@MBVM.Mitre.Org>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 19:23:45 GMT
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- In article <IBMTCP-L%92110411450390@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU>
- David Condrey 656-2733 <DAVIDC@CLEMSON.BITNET> writes:
-
- >
- >At the last SHARE, I brought up the fact that our TSO users are used to
- >printing by releasing sysout off of spool (in addition to using a TSO
- >"print" command) and that I wanted to allow these users to be able to
- >use printers remote to MVS.
- >
- >The specific problem that we are having is that we have a plotter on
- >the network that our MVS users want to plot to via SAS/GRAPH. SAS users
- >run batch jobs and release the output from spool (in our case using IOF).
- >
- >The foremost answer seems to be defining a remote printer to LPD.
- >However there is currently no way for LPD to get output from spool
- >and do the right things with it (retry on failure).
- >
- >When I mentioned this, someone in the back stood up and said that he was
- >solving this using a product called VPS (sic). Since then, we have
- >bought VPS. I have not personally looked at it, but our network manager
- >says that the VPS people indicated there is no solution to our problem.
- >
- >My question is: if you have solved this problem (or have any thoughts
- >on it), I'd really like to hear them. If the person that mentioned VPS
- >at the TCP/IP FFA is listening, I'd like to ask a few questions.
- >
- >Thanks everyone.
- >-David
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >|David S. Condrey ___ ______ _____ Bitnet: DAVIDC@CLEMSON |
- >|MVS Systems Programmer | \ \_____ | Internet: DAVIDC@CLEMSON.EDU |
- >|Clemson University |__/ _____/ |____ Phone: (803) 656-2733 |
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- It seems from the responses so far that VM shops have resolved the batch
- network printing problem by using service machines. In fact, MITRE is
- currently the same technique. Our MVS machine sends the file to a VM
- service machine, which in turn sends the files out using LPR. The problem
- is that we will soon be phasing out the VM machine.
-
- Has anyone found a MVS only solution to batch network printing? Even
- if VPS can use LPR in batch, it is too expensive. If there is no TCP/IP
- solution to network printing, our next solution would be to look into
- NJE-type links to an RS/6000 and letting it deal with the actual printing.
- Any ideas?
-
- Daniel Sorensen
- IBM Systems Group
- The MITRE Corporation
- (617) 271-2726
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- What, me speak for MITRE? Ha!
-