Procedure for specifying attributes

On the Processing panel of a printer definition, specify:

• Data format field: Select the data format to which the filter applies. For filter lpd_compat.so, select Line data and Text.
• Filter field: Specify lpd_compat.so. Type the absolute pathname if the filter is not in a directory named in the LIBPATH environment variable.
• Resubmit for filtering field: Do not select this field if the only filter you specify in the printer definition is lpd_compat.so. For more information about this field, see Resubmitting documents to Print Interface for filtering (basic mode). Selecting this field can adversely impact system performance. This field applies only to IP PrintWay™ basic mode. IP PrintWay extended mode ignores it.

Example

This ISPF panel shows how to specify the lpd_compat.so filter that Infoprint Server provides in the Processing section of a PSF printer definition. Only a portion of the ISPF panel is shown.

                                 Processing
 
Printer definition name . myprinter        

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Supported Data Formats and Associated Filters:
Data format:  Filter:
 
 / Line data  lpd_compat.so -w 72 %filter-options                (extend)
 _ MO:DCA-P   __________________________________________________ (extend)
 _ PostScript __________________________________________________ (extend)
 / Text       lpd_compat.so -w 72 %filter-options                (extend)
 _ PCL        __________________________________________________ (extend)
 _ PDF        __________________________________________________ (extend)
 _ SAP        __________________________________________________ (extend)
 _ XML        __________________________________________________ (extend)
 _ TIFF       __________________________________________________ (extend)
 _ JPEG       __________________________________________________ (extend)
 _ Other      __________________________________________________ (extend)
 
 _ Resubmit for filtering
 
 
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The filter options mean:

• The %filter-options option causes the filter to use any filter options that a job submitter specifies in the filter-options job attribute. For example, on an lp command.
• The -w option causes the filter to truncate lines that exceed 72 printable characters.

  Because the -w option is specified to the left of %filter-options, a -w option specified in the filter-options job attribute overrides this value.

To print an MVS™ data set with a header on each page and a maximum width of 80 characters, a user could specify the filter-options job attribute on this lp command:

lp -d myprinter -o "filter-options='-f p -w 80'" "//'MYDATA'"