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Printing from the LAN and the host This print shop wants to spend the day shift printing staff reports from the local LAN. On the night shift, it wants to use the same InfoPrint 4000 printer to print billing statements from the pSeries® server. By creating the destination through the InfoPrint Manager Administration GUI, the print administrator can make sure that the same destination can print jobs from both the LAN and the host. Distributed print shop using remote spooling A data center prints a monthly series of in-house reports. The jobs that generate the output are run during the evening off-shift (so they do not interrupt other work during the day), then held on the system. The shop saves bandwidth costs by sending the print files once, then printing them at rated speed as many times as needed. Although this data center only has a 56 KB link, MVS Download prevents performance problems caused by inefficient line speed. MVS Download waits for the entire job to be spooled before starting to print it on a high-speed continuous forms printer. Because this shop wants to integrate all their print servers while retaining the ability to send jobs once and print them many times, the MVS Download feature of InfoPrint Manager best meets their needs by allowing them to control all jobs locally. Managing resources with MVS Download When you use the MVS Download function, all print resources must reside on the AIX system where the InfoPrint Manager server is installed. You can manage these resources in one of these ways: v Download these resources to InfoPrint Manager through a standard file transfer protocol (FTP) in binary format. This method works best when resources do not change often. v Use the Network File System (NFS) mount command to make OS/390 or MVS systems containing resources accessible to the AIX server that InfoPrint Manager is running on. Because this solution can cause a great deal of network traffic, you should be careful when choosing this solution if your resources change frequently. v Use MVS Download to submit a resource instead of a print job and send it to all print resource libraries defined on your InfoPrint Manager server. This method requires you to customize your MVS Download exits and configuration. When you use the MVS Download function in InfoPrint Manager with AFP Download Plus for z/OS, the resources for the print jobs are normally sent with the print job as inline resources used for that job and the resources do not need to reside on the InfoPrint Manager server. However, if AFP Download Plus is configured to not send all resources as inline resources, then the resources that are not sent inline must reside on and be managed by the InfoPrint Manager server. Managing resources with AFP Upload If a data center has migrated its applications to AIX platforms, but still has its printers attached to the MVS host, they can use AFP Upload. By using AFP Upload, InfoPrint Manager for AIX acts as a passthrough point for sending AFP files (or files it can convert to AFP) to the MVS server, which places them on the JES spool. AFP Upload communicates through the TCP/IP protocol from the AIX system to the PSF host. AFP resources must be resident on the PSF host. By submitting jobs to the MVS host, a data center performs resource management at 22 InfoPrint Manager for AIX: Introduction and Planning Guide

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Printing from the LAN and the host
This print shop wants to spend the day shift printing staff reports from the local
LAN. On the night shift, it wants to use the same InfoPrint 4000 printer to print
billing statements from the pSeries
®
server. By creating the destination through the
InfoPrint Manager Administration GUI, the print administrator can make sure that
the same destination can print jobs from both the LAN and the host.
Distributed print shop using remote spooling
A data center prints a monthly series of in-house reports. The jobs that generate
the output are run during the evening off-shift (so they do not interrupt other
work during the day), then held on the system. The shop saves bandwidth costs
by sending the print files once, then printing them at rated speed as many times as
needed. Although this data center only has a 56 KB link, MVS Download prevents
performance problems caused by inefficient line speed. MVS Download waits for
the entire job to be spooled before starting to print it on a high-speed continuous
forms printer. Because this shop wants to integrate all their print servers while
retaining the ability to send jobs once and print them many times, the MVS
Download feature of InfoPrint Manager best meets their needs by allowing them to
control all jobs locally.
Managing resources with MVS Download
When you use the MVS Download function, all print resources must reside on the
AIX system where the InfoPrint Manager server is installed. You can manage these
resources in one of these ways:
v
Download these resources to InfoPrint Manager through a standard file transfer
protocol (FTP) in binary format. This method works best when resources do not
change often.
v
Use the Network File System (NFS) mount command to make OS/390 or MVS
systems containing resources accessible to the AIX server that InfoPrint Manager
is running on. Because this solution can cause a great deal of network traffic,
you should be careful when choosing this solution if your resources change
frequently.
v
Use MVS Download to submit a resource instead of a print job and send it to all
print resource libraries defined on your InfoPrint Manager server. This method
requires you to customize your MVS Download exits and configuration.
When you use the MVS Download function in InfoPrint Manager with AFP
Download Plus for z/OS, the resources for the print jobs are normally sent with
the print job as inline resources used for that job and the resources do not need to
reside on the InfoPrint Manager server. However, if AFP Download Plus is
configured to not send all resources as inline resources, then the resources that are
not sent inline must reside on and be managed by the InfoPrint Manager server.
Managing resources with AFP Upload
If a data center has migrated its applications to AIX platforms, but still has its
printers attached to the MVS host, they can use AFP Upload. By using AFP
Upload, InfoPrint Manager for AIX acts as a passthrough point for sending AFP
files (or files it can convert to AFP) to the MVS server, which places them on the
JES spool. AFP Upload communicates through the TCP/IP protocol from the AIX
system to the PSF host. AFP resources must be resident on the PSF host. By
submitting jobs to the MVS host, a data center performs resource management at
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