When you configure IP PrintWay to use Infoprint XT to process and print Xerox jobs, the overall process involves a number of components from the z/OS operating system, and from other products. Job-processing steps place the job on the z/OS Job Entry Subsystem (JES) spool multiple times. This list describes the components and the job-processing steps:

1. Submitting the job

   In the first step, you submit the Xerox job with JCL that uses a FORMS, CLASS, or DEST value, or combined values. These values might indicate the printer that should print the job. The value or values can also indicate which initial JDL and JDE pair that the job requires. For example, CLASS=A jobs all require the DPLJDL JDL, and the STRTON JDE. This step places the native Xerox data stream onto the z/OS JES spool for the first time.

2. Obtaining the job from the spool through a JES IP PrintWay local printer

   In the second step, an IP PrintWay printer obtains the job from the spool. The Printer can either be a PrintWay™ Basic printer (which uses the FSA interface), or a PrintWay Extended printer (which uses the SAPI interface with JES). Typically, the configuration of the IP PrintWay printer mirrors the configuration that you used for one or more of your Xerox printers.

3. Transferring the job to an IP PrintWay LPR printer

   IP PrintWay then uses the Infoprint Server Printer Inventory to identify an IP PrintWay LPR printer definition that has specific values in its allocation information. That is, it locates an IP PrintWay LPR printer definition that matches the value or values for the FORMS, CLASS, and DEST parameters that the job specifies. In this step, IP PrintWay transfers the Xerox job to the Print Interface LPD and PSF printer definitions. You set up both the Print Interface LPD and the PSF printer definitions in the IP PrintWay LPR printer definition.

4. Converting the job with the Infoprint XT managed transform

   In the fourth step, the Print Interface LPD receives the data set. The configuration of the PSF for z/OS printer definition causes Infoprint XT to convert the Xerox job into AFP.

5. Applying new printer-selection values to the AFP job

   The PSF for z/OS printer definition contains printer-selection values in its allocation information. It can have a value for CLASS, FORMS, or DEST parameters, or a combination of values. It applies these values to the job, and places the job back on the JES spool.

6. Assigning the job to a printer device

   You use a printer driver program, such as PSF, to manage the workflow of jobs to your InfoPrint printers. The printer driver manages the jobs, and communicates with the printer hardware. You define each printer to the printer driver, and include work selection criteria. By using the same printer-selection values that the PSF for z/OS printer definition applied to the job in the previous step, the printer driver removes the AFP job from the spool for the last time. It then sends the job to your Infoprint printers.