Requirements for using a TCP/IP-attached IPDS printer

To print on TCP/IP-attached IPDS printers through PSF for z/OS®, you need Communications Server IP Services installed and configured on the z/OS system you are running. Communications Server supports IPv4 and IPv6.

Note:

The TCP/IP job name parameter in the Printer Inventory or the PARM parameter on the EXEC statement can be used to specify the name of the TCP/IP startup procedure, if different from the default of TCPIP. PSF uses the name of the TCP/IP startup procedure to identify the TCP/IP address space (the TCP/IP started task name that is in the TCP/IP profile data set with the TCPIPJOBNAME keyword), so that PSF can establish communications to a TCP/IP-attached printer.

To specify a TCP/IP startup procedure other than the default, do one of these:

Specify the name of the TCP/IP startup procedure with the TCP/IP job name parameter in the Printer Inventory (see TCP/IP job name).
Code this EXEC statement in the appropriate PSF writer procedure:
```
//STEP01   EXEC PGM=APSPPIEP,REGION=4M,PARM=(,,,,tcpip_name)
```
where tcpip_name is the name of the TCP/IP startup procedure. You can use the first four parameters in the PARM parameter to specify PSF tracing values. For a description of these parameters, see PARM parameters on the EXEC statement.

To determine whether a printer can be TCP/IP-attached, see the documentation provided with the printer.