lp printing to mainframe infoprint print interface

[Caleb Ong]

Hello,

We are running hpux and trying to sent an output to the mainframe (os/390).The mainframe has a sw called infoprint which has lpd daemon. The file that we are sending up to the mainframe has asa control characters. When the output is send to the mainframe for printing in the local printer, the output is incorrect. The carriage control character is printed as text. Meaning "1" is printed as number "1" instead of doing a form feed.

The mainframe guys setup their trace and said that the control file is not being set correctly. the carriage-control-type is set to none and the document-formats-supported = text.

We have tried different lp -ooptions but none of them seems to work.

does hp-ux lp command support the asa control characters ? How do i get my file printed correctly on mainframe ? what options do i need to set on the hpux side?

Thanks.

Caleb

[Geoff Wild]

We have a couple of mainframe printers - how did you setup the queues?

I configured them as remote printers like this:

lpadmin -v/dev/null -mrmodel -pmvs2 -ormcal1mvs.mydomain.com -orplcldup

I print to them like so:
lp -d$P -n$C -p3 -onb $Fileout

Rgds...Geoff

[Rita C Workman]

I'm with Geoff on this...

..the Mainframe here and our UNIX servers all share the same large Xerox printers. For the UNIX side of the 'house' I simply set up remote printers (lazily through SAM), nothing special. Just set up as remote printers. Works for our environment.

Rgrds,
Rita