Associated printing

Associated printing is a technique for directing application program printer output to a specific printer node name.

For associated printing, application programs insert messages to the queue that is associated with the screen-user queue name. User printing requests cause application programs to queue data to different printer LTERMs. This avoids data interleaving problems.

Printer signoff and signon are required to change the user queue. Overhead can be high if the printer has many users.

Associated printers are logged on automatically when their LTERMs have queued messages, usually during an IMS restart or during the creation of an LTERM.

Recommendation: Carefully plan how your printers are to be shared among application programs.

By implementing exit routines and application programs, the terminal operator can provide the destination during logon or signon.