Planning the Printer Inventory
These topics contain information to help you plan your Printer
Inventory. The Printer Inventory consists of UNIX files
(such as z/FS files) that contain information about your printing
environment.
In this information,
PSF refers to PSF for z/OS® and to the AFP Download Plus feature of PSF.
The Printer Inventory can contain these types of objects, called definitions:
- Printer definitions
- Describe the printers in your system. IP PrintWay™, PSF, or JES can control the printers.
Printer
definitions can also:
- Describe an email destination. The destination can be one email
address or a list of email addresses.
- Include other Printer Inventory objects called components.
Components let you use one object to specify information that is common
to several printer definitions.
- Printer pool definitions
- Describe groups of printer definitions that you want to broadcast
data to (applies only to NetSpool). Only VTAM® applications
can print to a printer pool definition.
- FSS definitions
- Describe the IP PrintWay basic
mode and PSF functional subsystems (FSSs) that the system programmer
has defined to your JES system.
- FSA definitions
- Describe the IP PrintWay basic
mode and PSF functional subsystem applications (FSAs) that the system
programmer has defined to your JES system.
- Job selection rules
- Describe the rules that IP PrintWay extended
mode uses to determine which print jobs to select from the JES spool
to print.
- System configuration definition
- Contains configuration information for all components
of Infoprint Server. Infoprint Server automatically creates this definition.
Authorized administrators can edit it if dynamic configuration is
enabled.
Table 10 summarizes the types of objects you can
create or edit in the Printer Inventory and indicates when the definitions
are required. Required definitions are required by all installations.
Optional definitions are required only if the condition is met. See
the page reference for more information about the definition.
Table 10. Printer Inventory objectsInventory definition | Condition | See topic |
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Printer definition | Required1 | Planning printer definitions | Components | Optional: To simplify administration of printer
definitions | Planning printer definitions | Printer pool definition | Optional: To broadcast data from VTAM applications through NetSpool to
multiple printer definitions | Planning printer pool definitions | FSS definition for IP PrintWay basic mode | Optional: To print on VTAM-controlled printers
or to customize the IP PrintWay basic
mode FSS | Planning FSS definitions | FSS definition for PSF | Optional2 | Planning FSS definitions | FSA definition for IP PrintWay basic mode | Optional: To specify unique trace parameters
for the FSA | Planning FSA definitions | FSA definition for PSF | Optional2 | Planning FSA definitions | Job selection rule | Optional: To have IP PrintWay extended
mode select print jobs from the JES spool | Planning job selection rules | System configuration | Required 3 | |
- In some cases you can support more than one printer with the same
printer definition. For more information, see One printer definition for several actual printers.
- You must create FSS and FSA definitions for PSF if you configure PSF to
use the Printer Inventory. For information about how to configure PSF to
use the Printer Inventory, see:
- Infoprint Server automatically creates the system
configuration definition. If dynamic configuration is enabled, authorized
administrators can edit it. For information about dynamic configuration
and the system configuration definition, see z/OS Infoprint Server Customization.
| To create and manage Printer Inventory definitions, you can use
one of these methods or a combination of these methods:
- Infoprint Server ISPF panels: The ISPF
panels let you add, list, browse, copy, edit, and delete definitions.
For information about how to use the ISPF panels, see Using ISPF panels to manage the Printer Inventory.
- Printer Inventory Definition Utility (PIDU): The
PIDU program lets you create, display, list, modify, rename, delete,
export, and dump definitions. You might find the PIDU program convenient
for creating a large number of definitions at one time or for making
the same change to many definitions. For information about how to
run the PIDU program, see Using the PIDU program to manage the Printer Inventory.
- Infoprint Server
migration program: The migration program can create PSF FSS and
FSA definitions in the Printer Inventory from information in your
PSF startup procedures and JES definitions.
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