PSF/AIX or Infoprint Manager: How does it handle FORMS id and FORMS set-up messages
ITEM: RTA000091882
Q:
ABSTRACT: PSF/6000 forms ID
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TOPIC THREAD: PRINT
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PSF6000
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When printing PSF/MVS data through a PSF/AIX system how is the forms
ID handled? PSF/MVS issues forms change messages, how will a remote
operator know to change forms when running PSF/AIX? Thanks
A:
Is the customer connecting PSF/MVS with PSF/6000 using PSF Direct
(SNA-based) or MVS Download (TCP/IP-based)? The answer differs.
1) PSF Direct (SNA):
An operator at JES should be able to get forms setup messages either
through SDSF or the JES console for a PSF Direct attached printer.
Here's the key: there is a SETUP parm on the PRINTDEV statement in
the PSF startup proc. To have JES issue forms setup messages to the
operator, you must specify SETUP=FORMS. By default, JES issues forms
setup messages to the operator for channel-attached printers, but
does not issue forms setup messages to the operator for SNA-attached
printers. In the case of PSF Direct, all printers are considered
SNA-attached, so this parameter must be coded explicitly.
(Note that SETUP=BURST is not supported for SNA-attached--including
PSF Direct-attached--printers.)
2) MVS Download (TCP/IP):
MVS Download moves a file down to the AIX system and submits it to
print on AIX. The AIX spooling subsystem does not support FORMS
notification as such, so even if a FORMS parameter is sent down,
neither AIX nor PSF issue a message to the operator to change paper.
There might be a way to work around this limitation through setting
up multiple queues--one for each type of form--and only enabling
that one for which the proper paper is loaded in the printer.
Or there might be a way to invoke the AIX qprt command with the -m
or -M flags which send a message to the console requiring a response
before printing proceeds, although I admit I've not thought that all
the way through. Let me know if this something they wish explored
further.
The best answer for forms setup in an AIX environment is to use
Infoprint Manager to manage the printers. You can set attributes for
an actual destination to define what forms can possibly be loaded
on the printer (media-supported), as well as which form is currently
(psf-tray-characteristics, for PSF-driven printers). Only jobs that
specify one of the supported media will be accepted, and of that,
only those jobs that match to psf-tray-characteristics will be
printed (until the form is changed and the operator updates
the psf-tray-characteristic attribute to say that a different
form is loaded. So you can see that Infoprint Manager provides
additional capability when it comes to forms management.
| The MVS Download shell script can be customized to map the FORMS
| parameter to the "default-medium" attribute for the job. A sample
| shell script with this capability is provided "as-is" in the
| Infoprint Manager Hints and Fixes database. Also see libraried
| item RTA000150162.
I hope that helps. Please reopen with additional questions.
| Revised 27 July 1999.
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:
AIX PSF/6000 PSF/AIX PSF/MVS DIRECT PSM FORMS SETUP MESSAGE psf
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