Print Interface with an SAP R/3 application server on the z/OS system

Figure 1 shows how the Print Interface SAP Output Management System (OMS), Callback daemon, and the SAP R/3 Application Server for z/OS fit into your system. When the SAP R/3 Application Server runs on the same z/OS system, the Print Interface OMS receives print and status requests, and the Callback daemon provides immediate notification of job events. The SAP R/3 Application Server for z/OS and its spool work process must run on the same system as Infoprint Server. The Print Interface Callback daemon can return notification of job events to SAP R/3 application servers that run on other SAP R/3 systems, if the SAP spool work process runs on the z/OS system.

Figure 1. Printing SAP R/3 documents with an SAP R/3 application server that runs on a z/OS system
The following text explains the figure.
  1. From an SAP R/3 GUI, users make print, cancel, job query, and device query requests to the SAP R/3 Application Server. These print requests specify the name of an SAP R/3 output device that is defined to the SAP R/3 system. The SAP administrator associates each output device with a printer definition in the Infoprint Server Printer Inventory.
  2. For a status request, the Print Interface SAP OMS returns the status of a print job or a list of print jobs that the printer is processing.
  3. For a print request, Print Interface automatically detects the data format. It calls Transform Interface to transform the data to another format if the administrator specified a filter in the printer definition. For example, if the data format is PCL or PostScript, Transform Interface can call the PCL to AFP transform or the PostScript to AFP transform to transform the data to AFP format for printing on an AFP printer.
  4. Print Interface creates an output data set on the JES spool. From the JES spool, IP PrintWay™, PSF, or JES can print the document.
  5. IP PrintWay selects data sets from the JES spool and transmits them to remote printers, print servers, or email destinations.
  6. PSF selects data sets from the JES spool and prints them on AFP printers. The printers can be local, TCP/IP-attached, or SNA-attached.
  7. As print jobs complete (successfully or unsuccessfully), the Print Interface SAP callback daemon sends notification back to the SAP R/3 system.
Parent topic: Print Interface