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Tabassum · Guest

Hello,

Please accept my apologies in advance for posting in wrong forum, but I was
not able to post it in the 'SNA' forum. The service says 'Newgroup npt
available'.

I have a problem with the printing setup, kindly go through the scenario and
please help me in finding a way out.

There an IBM Mainframe Server placed in location 1. It has some Controllers
attached to it. There are about 1000 Dumb Terminals attached to various
controllers over LAN and WAN. In addition, there are some remote PCs over the
WAN. These PCs are running SNA Client Software and thus they can very easily
access the IBM Mainframe Application via SNA Gateway. When local printers
are attached the PCs on, say, LPT1 Port, that printer also becomes a part of
the whole SNA Network. Now the problem is, when a user on this remote PC
needs to print something on the printer attached locally to his/her PC, the
printing does not work. The logical flow of the print job is:

1. The PC sends a printing job for a local printer
2. The job goes to the IBM Mainframe (placed in location 1)
3. The IBM Mainframe does some necessary processing and sends back the
print job to the client who generated it.
4. Ideally, the print job should be executed on the local printer - BUT
IT DOES NOT DO SO

TIA

Tabassum

Neil Pike · Guest

Tabassum,

What you should do is...

1. Lan attach the printers using Jetdirect/Lexmark/whatever cards
2. Define NT print queues to them on the SNA Server running the SNAPrint
service
3. Define printers to the SNAPrint service pointing to the relevant LU that
the mainframe knows the printer as

Then the prints will go direct to the printer you want.

An upgrade from SNA 4 (out of support in March as I recall) to HIS 2004 would
be recommended. There are a huge number of printing fixes/improvements since
SNA 4 you would then get.

Neil Pike. Protech Computing Ltd

Tabassum · Guest

Thanks a lot for your support & time.

Just wanted to confirm, if the printer is installed locally on the LPT port
of the remote user, then SNA supports printing through it.

TIA

Regards,
Tabassum

"Neil Pike" wrote:

Neil Pike · Guest

Tabassum,

As far as I know the only way for an SNA client to print to a local printer is
either for it to be done via the 3270 emulator, or to tie a printer LU to the users
3270 session.

If you want a host initiated print, then the print is done via the SNA Print
service and this runs on the SNA Server not the SNA Client.

Charles Ezzell (MSFT) · Guest

As Neil stated, you can print either 1 of 2 ways: (1) A print emulator
running on the client or (2) through the sna print service, which runs on
the Server. For (1) you need a 3rd party emulator. For (2) most of the time
things will work correctly straight out of the box, but in some cases you
may need to modify the print session setttings. This is all dependent on the
datastream coming from your host.

As far as support, if the OS can print to the printer, we can print to it.
But, we do not support IPDS printing out of the box; there are numerous 3rd
party solutions that work with our software.

Charles

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