The mainframes are dead, cried the industry experts.
Many companies still depend on the big iron to run their core business applications.
Users want to be able to get the same quality of output and access to features when printing from the mainframe as they do when they print from local computer applications. And administrators do not want to purchase separate printers for mainframe and LAN printing. The challenges of printing to LAN-based printers from a mainframe can be daunting. There are a number of issues to deal with, including physical connectivity, protocol connectivity and print job language configuration. To deal with print job language setup issues, you have several options.