Submitting a print request

You can use the LPR command to submit a print request. From an AIX® system, you can also use the enq command.

Before you begin: Before you use an LPR or enq command, ask your administrator for:

• The host name or IP address of the z/OS system on which Infoprint Server is running.
• The name of the printer definition created for the printer. This name is case-sensitive. You must specify this name as the name of the printer or print queue.

The IBM® i LPR command and the AIX enq command let you specify Infoprint Server job attributes, which are described in Using job attributes.

For more information about how to submit an LPR or enq command from a particular system, see:

• Printing from an AIX workstation
• Printing from a remote z/OS system
• Printing from a VM or z/VM system
• Printing from an IBM i system

After receiving a print request, Infoprint Server returns either an error message or a job identifier. The job identifier indicates that Infoprint Server has accepted the print request. You can use the job identifier to query the status of the print request or to cancel the print request.