User's Manual

CHAPTER 8: IBM IPDS Printing

8.1.7 V

ERIFYING THE

IPDS C

ONFIGURATION ON THE

AS/400

To test that the AS/400 and the print server are connected and communicating,

ping the print server from an AS/400 workstation with the following command:

PING ‘TCP/IP ADDRESS’ or PING HOST NAME

TCP/IP Address is the address of the print server (be sure to include the single

quote marks around the address). Host name is the optional name you may have

defined for the printer attached to the print server if you created an optional

TCP/IP Host Table entry. If the pings are not successful, refer to Chapter 9. If the

pings are successful, vary on the print server’s printer device description by typing

this command (all on one line):

VRYCFG(print server printer device name)

CFGTYPE(*DEV) STATUS(*ON)

To use PSF/400 to send IPDS files to the print server, start the writer by typing this

command:

STRPRTWTR DEV(print server printer device name)

8.2 Configuring the IBM Mainframe for IPDS Printing

The print server’s basic configuration should already have been completed using

instructions found in Chapter 4. Additional configuration options for the print

server can be set through either the print-control utility or by using host download

commands. These functions are described later in this chapter.

Several steps are required to configure the MVS system to print AFP/IPDS files on

the print server with PPR/PPD (TCP/IP). These are:

1. Define the MVS communications control units to MVS.

2. Modify the TCP/IP profile on your MVS system.

3. Ping the printer.

4. Define the printer as a writer-controlled printer to JES.

5. Define the printer to PSF/MVS with PRINTDEV, including IP address.

For more information, refer to IBM publications TCP/IP for MVS: Customization

and Administration Guide, or PSF V3R1.0 for OS/390 Customization, or

PSF/MVS: System Programming Guide