PSF/6000: WHAT DOES PSF/6000 LOOK LIKE TO
ITEM: RTA000032122
QUESTION:
Customer needs to know how PSF/MVS communicates with TCP/IP to route
data to PSF/6000. What does the RS/6000 look like to PSF/MVS with
the TCP/IP connections? If PSF/6000 is channel connected to PSF/MVS,
is TCP/IP still needed to transfer files? Thank you.
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A: | Revised 10/94 to add updated information: With the recent
| announcement of TCP/IP for MVS Version 3 and the Network Print
| Facility, and the addition of an exit in PSF/6000 APAR IX46016,
| you can now route 1403 line data or AFPDS output from the JES spool
| (JES2 or JES3) through TCP/IP to PSF/6000 and its attached printers.
| According to the NPF book (SC31-8074), NPF also supports printing
| of VTAM SCS output over LU Type 1 sessions and VTAM 3270 data
| stream output over LU type 3 and LU type 0 sessions. The job
| is spooled to the AIX spool, and further spool management takes
| place at the AIX system. This item will be further revised if
| additional connectivity capabilities are added.
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You can not currently submit a job to PSF/MVS and have it routed
down to PSF/6000 automatically. PSF/MVS only works with the JES spool,
and there is no mechanism (as there is with PSF/2 and its DPF function)
to route output down to the AIX spool and then to PSF/6000. You can use
the ACIF function of PSF/MVS 2.1.1 to convert linedata to AFPDS, save
it in a dataset, and then use the functions of TCP/IP to remote print
(LPR) it to AIX & PSF/6000, or use FTP to transfer the file down to the
RISC System/6000, and then use AIX print commands to submit the job
for printing. If you get the file down to AIX and then use the enq
command to print, you can specify some different print parameters, such
as formdef. You can use LPR from an MVS TCP/IP mainframe to pass some
parameters to PSF/6000. We hope to document this shortly.
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You can channel attach a RISC System/6000 to a S/390 host, for example
as a gateway to downstream networks, but you still cannot communicate
automatically between PSF/MVS and PSF/6000.
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This item was created from library item Q631990 CGSTS
Additional search words:
AFP AUG93 CGSTS ESPECIALLY FILE FILES HANDLE IP LOOK MVS OZNEW PRINT
PRINTABLE PRINTER PRINTING PRT PSF PSF6000 TCP TRANSFER XFER 6000
WWQA: ITEM: RTA000032122 ITEM: RTA000032122
Dated: 01/1995 Category: PSF6000
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