Printing output with IMS Spool API

This topic provides design and operational advice for the use of the IMS™ DL⁄I Spool application programming interface (API) and provides details for using the IMS Spool API to increase the access of IMS application programs to advanced printing capabilities.

IMS provides an expansion of the DL⁄I application programming interface that allows application programs to interface directly to JES and to create print data sets on the JES spool. These print data sets are then made available to print managers and spool servers to serve the needs of the application program.