IBM z/OS manual Print Services, Infoprint Central

Print Services

z/OS Version 1 Release 6 optional priced features

Infoprint® Server

–IP PrintWay™

–NetSpool™

–z/OS Print Interface

Infoprint Server provides a reliable, high availability, secure and scalable foundation for customer’s enterprise printing infrastructure. Infoprint Server and its companion prod- uct, Infoprint Server Transforms, include a print interface, printer inventory, application output capture program, and print drivers and management tools that let you manage any print job to any printer defi ned to Infoprint Server, including electronic distribution for presentation over the Web.

Infoprint Central

Infoprint Central is a Web-based, GUI for managing print jobs and printers throughout the enterprise from anywhere in the enterprise using a Web browser. Intended primar- ily for help desk operators, it lets users query the status of jobs and printers, see job and printer messages, stop and start printers, move jobs from one printer to another, cancel or hold jobs, and many other functions. Infoprint Central can use integrated z/OS security services so that users can be authorized to perform only certain tasks, or to perform tasks only on designated devices.

IP PrintWay extended mode: Infoprint Central is backed by a new architecture in the component that delivers print or e-mail output to printers, servers or users over TCP/IP or Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). IP PrintWay extended mode uses the SYSOUT Application Programming Inter- face (SAPI) to access print jobs and job information from

the JES spool. The advantage of this change can be higher availability and throughput, more fl exibility for han- dling print-related tasks, and scalability of Infoprint Server for very large distributed print environments.

Common message log: A new common message log helps to improve productivity of help desk operators for print problem diagnosis and resolution, thus helping to increase system availability and user satisfaction. Messages can easily be accessed from Infoprint Central for a particular job or printer.

These capabilities give you the fl exibility to deliver output on demand, anywhere you need it:

•Legacy CICS and IMS applications that generate SNA Character String (SCS) or 3270 output formats can print to LAN-attached PCL printers, without changes to the application program.

•Output can be sent as e-mail instead of, or in addition to print.

•A consolidated printer inventory lets you defi ne all print- ers used with Infoprint Server, and printers driven by Print Services Facility (PSF) in one place. Printers can be defi ned and modifi ed from a single easy-to-use inter- face.

•IP PrintWay provides support for printers attached to the network using TCP/IP, VTAM-controlled coax printers, and for printers and servers over the Internet using the industry-standard Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). Easy- to-use ISPF menus also enable management of distrib- uted printers.

•The Print Interface supports print submission from appli- cations running in UNIX System Services (USS), from Windows users via native Windows SMB, from applica- tions on other servers, and over the Internet using IPP.

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