IBM OS/390 manual PSF Startup Procedures, Defining Printers for PSF Printing

11.2.2.2 TCP/IP Attached Printers

Unlike VSE, OS/390 also supports printing to TCP/IP connected printers.

There are several ways to print from PSF to LAN connected printers through TCP/IP:

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IP PrintWay

MVS/Download and PSF/6000 and InfoPrint Manager

MVS/LANRES

TCP/IP for MVS Network Print Facility

Directly attach Network IPDS printers with IPDS cards, IP 4000 systems with TCP/IP attachments

The IBM recommended method is through IP PrintWay, which is an optional feature of OS/390 or feature of PSF/MVS.

See the IBM IP PrintWay Guide, S544-5379.

11.2.3 The PSF Startup Procedures

PSF/MVS runs partially within the JES2 address space (when using deferred printing), and partly as a Functional Subsystem Application (FSA) in one or more separate MVS address spaces.

See Chapter 7 ²Using Deferred-Printing Mode² in the PSF/MVS Systems Programmers Guide for sample initialization statements and startup procedures.

11.2.4 Defining Printers for PSF Printing

PSF driven printers, whether locally attached or network attached, must be defined by JES2 PRT(nnnn) statements in the JES2 initialization deck. They can also be added dynamically with the $ADD PRT(nnnn) command. See Chapter 7 ªUsing Deferred-Printing Modeº in thePSF/MVS Systems Programming Guide and the JES2 Initialization and Tuning Reference for detailed descriptions of the JES2 parameters.

Below is a simple example of the JES2 FSS and PRT statements from the

PSF/MVS Systems Programming Guide:

FSS(FSS1) PROC=SAMPPROC,		/* Procedure name to start FSA	*/
	HASPFSSM=HASPFSSM	/* Standard JES2 FSI Support Mod */
PRT1	FSS=FSS1,	/* Name of above FSS definition	*/

MODE=FSS,

PRMODE=(LINE,PAGE),

UNIT=20E,

CLASS=A,

UCS=0,

SEP=YES,

SEPDS=YES,

CKPTPAGE=100,

START=NO,

MARK=YES,

NPRO=99,

TRKCELL=YES

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