Planning printer definitions
A printer definition contains information about one or more printers or email destinations. The printer can be a local printer or remote printer in your Internet Protocol network, or it can be a printer that is defined to VTAM®.
- Information that Print Interface and NetSpool use to allocate data
sets on the JES spool.
For example, the JES output class (CLASS), the destination name (DEST), the forms name (FORMS), and the form definition name for all data sets submitted to the printer definition.
- Information that IP PrintWay™ uses
to transmit data sets from the JES spool to the printer or the email
destination.
For example, the IP address of the printer or the email addresses of the email recipients.
Users, who can be job submitters or applications, submit print jobs to a printer by specifying the name of the printer definition or, in some cases, the CLASS, DEST, and FORMS values for the printer definition. The name of a printer definition is case-sensitive and can contain up to 17 printable characters.
- The types of printer definitions you can create
- How many printer definitions you need to create for each actual printer
- The printer attributes that you can specify in the printer definitions
- How to use components to help you manage large numbers of printer definitions