Using CICS printers

As we noted, the second issue that frequently arises in printing concerns ownership of the printer. Requests for printing often originate from a user at a display terminal. The task that processes the request and generates the printed output is associated with the user's terminal and therefore cannot send output directly to the printer.

If your task does not own the printer it wants to use, it must create another task, which does, to do the work using one of the following methods.