Re: Transfer reports from lpar to lpar

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:40:26 -0700, Ulrich Krueger <ukr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Gil,
Now that you explained why you would like to use NJE, have you thought
about
alternatives?

For example:
Do you have TCP/IP-attached laser printers in the office, HP laser printers
or high-speed copiers with IP-interface?
If so, do you have VPS or any other mainframe software that allows printing
of mainframe reports on IP printers?
Assuming, of course, that the reports are not millions of lines or
AFP-format, requiring 3900-class printers and/or special size paper, how
about this: Use XMITIP[1] to convert the report to a PDF file (with optional
green-bar page background) and email it to the user. The user can then
decide if on-line viewing on the PC is sufficient and/or print all or
selected pages to a network / PC - printer. Might save a tree or two, and a
lot of time waiting for report delivery ...

Until you do find a workable solution, how about charging the users a fee
for each special report handling request? $5 per request, perhaps? (Just
kidding)

Regards,
Ulrich Krueger

[1] Shameless plug: XMITIP and TXT2PDF by Lionel Dyck is software to send
Email from the mainframe, with or without attached files in a variety of
file formats. And the price is unbeatable: Free.
See http://www.lbdsoftware.com/tcpip.html



Actually, alternatives was what I was looking for but the alternatives were
really not as seemless and intervention-less as I hoped.

I looked at XMITIP and SDSFEXT and although viable, I was hoping I could
just use something like the IBM IASXWR00 external writer program to offload
the reports and point the IEFRDER ddname to the desired IP destination. It
sounded viable but unreachable.

I then thought all I would have to do is point the IEFRDER to a temp dataset
and follow it with an FTP to send it to the desired region but I could not find a
way to send the temp dataset directly to the JES2 spool.

Each solution started to get messier and in reality, NJE just sounds like the
way to go. I just have to find a way to be politically astute and grease the
right palms to get the thing in.

Thanks,
Gil.

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