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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.