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Setting up an environment that uses the CLASS parameter

IBM Infoprint XT for z/OS
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In your Xerox environment, you have two printers that use a starting environment that specifies the DPLJDL JDL, and the STRTON JDE. The names of the Xerox printers are PRT1 and PRT2, and they are defined as JES local printers. Their work selection criteria are identical: WS=(Q). Their class definitions are also the same: CLASS=P. Complete these steps to replicate this environment in a combined Infoprint XT and IP PrintWay installation:

  1. If you are using IP PrintWay Basic mode, create a new JES local printer that can be your JES IP PrintWay local printer. This is an FSS printer, with the appropriate name for the IP PrintWay™ subsystem specified through the FSS parameter of the PRT(nnnnn) statement. See z/OS Infoprint Server Customization for further information about creating the IP PrintWay FSS and FSA. Configure CLASS=P, and WS=(Q), so that the parameter values match the settings that you specified for your Xerox printers.

    If you are using IP PrintWay Extended, then you do not need to configure CLASS=P or WS in JES for the printer. Instead, create a job selection rule in the Printer Inventory so that IP PrintWay selects jobs that specify CLASS=P. See z/OS Infoprint Server Customization for procedures to create job selection rules for IP PrintWay.

  2. Create a printer definition in the Printer Inventory that can be your PSF for z/OS printer. Record the name you give the printer definition. You use it when you define the IP PrintWay LPR printer in the next step. Use the procedure described in Creating a PSF for z/OS printer definition with routing information. You need to specify a new value for the CLASS parameter in the allocation section. For example, you might want to use a value of N. This printer definition applies the CLASS value to the job, prior to placing the job back on the spool. This is the method through which you associate the job with the JES PSF local printers, which you create in a later step.
  3. Create a printer definition in the Infoprint Server Printer Inventory, that can be your IP PrintWay LPR printer. Use the procedure described in Creating an IP PrintWay printer definition. In this example, you would specify:
    1. A value of P for the CLASS parameter when you complete the Allocation section.
    2. In the Protocol section, the name that you specify in the Print queue name field is the name of your PSF for z/OS printer, specified in the previous step. By using the transform that Infoprint XT manages, this printer definition actually invokes the conversion process that creates the AFP version of the Xerox job.
  4. Create a transform parameter mapping file with these entries. Because you submit all of the jobs with a CLASS of P, you can omit CLASS information, which improves performance:
    #-----------------------------------------------------#
    #  Set the default for all jobs                       #
    #-----------------------------------------------------#
    *=*
      -x'xjdl=dpljdl xjde=strton'
    See Creating a custom parameter mapping file for detailed information about mapping files.
  5. Create a new JES local printer for each of your Infoprint printers. Configure CLASS=N, and WS=(Q), so that these printers process the AFP jobs placed on the spool by the PSF for z/OS printer.
  6. Ensure that you have updated the PSF startup procedure. See PSF for z/OS: Customization. This is a separate procedure, and these definitions are not JES local printers, or printer definitions in the Infoprint Server Printer Inventory.

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