Planning printer definitions for Print Interface

Before using Print Interface to allocate output data sets on the JES spool, you must specify the attributes that Print Interface uses in the printer definitions. If a printer definition does not already exist for a printer, you must create one. If a printer definition already exists, edit it and specify the attributes that Print Interface uses.

Once you have specified the attributes that Print Interface uses, users can use one of several different methods to submit print jobs to Print Interface. For example: the lp command, the AOPPRINT JCL procedure, an lpr command, the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol from a Windows system, the Infoprint Port Monitor for Windows, or the Print Interface subsystem. The attributes you specify in a printer definition are the same regardless of the method users might use to submit print jobs.

Table 47 summarizes the attributes that Print Interface uses and indicates whether each attribute is required or optional. You can use the Infoprint Server ISPF panels or the Printer Inventory Definition Utility (PIDU) to specify these attributes.

Table 11 lists the tasks related to Print Interface and refers to the topic that describes how to do each task.