From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: Communications Manager and Host-directed printing
Organization: CARD
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:09:15 GMT

In article <Bu04sn.M4v@news.udel.edu>                                                                                                                 
turtle@brahms.udel.edu (Anthony J Collins) writes:                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                      
>I have a PC running Communications Manager that is connected to a                                                                                    
>mainframe by a SDLC card.  Also, I have a laser printer attached to                                                                                  
>the PC and I would like to configure Communications Manager so mainframe                                                                             
>applications can print to the laser printer on the PC.  The documentation                                                                            
>seems to indicate this is possible.  Has anyone worked out the details?                                                                              
>I'm looking for the key parameters that could be wrong.  Any help or                                                                                 
>knowledge would be appreciated.  Thanks!                                                                                                             
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>Tony                                                                                                                                                 
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You should be able to do this.  First define another LU on VTAM, and give                                                                             
it a DLOGMODE for the SNA Character Set (SCS) printer.  Then go into your CM                                                                          
configuration, and into the 3270 sessions area and set a printer up to the LU                                                                         
number that you gave it in VTAM.  If you have VM/CMS you will then need to add                                                                        
a printer in RSCS, and point it to the LU you defined in VTAM.  You will also                                                                         
want to add the parameter TRANS=ASSIC on the PARM line of the RSCS configuratio                                                                       
n so that RSCS does not throw away certain characters.                                                                                                
If you have MVS, I am not sure of host details, as there is no RSCS in MVS.  Yo                                                                       
ur host people should be able to help you with this.                                                                                                  
Once yo have your CM configured for the LU and you have VTAM and RSCS setup, yo                                                                       
u should be able to print from the host to the printer (host directed print).                                                                         
We use it quite succesfully, and have also been able to use this setup to print                                                                       
 CMS SAS/GRAPH's from the host onto the printer - very impressive to get graphi                                                                       
cs output on an EBCDIC machine and have it print out on an ASCII printer.                                                                             
Repost or Email if you have more questions                                                                                                            
Good luck                                                                                                                                             
Mike Long                                                                                                                                             
Iowa State University