A 3270 printer runs in two modes; you probably will need BIND images for both.
In one mode the printer is an LU1 and uses SNA Character String (SCS). The SCS data are a mixture of EBCDIC printable characters and control characters valid in SCS, e.g., NL. In the other mode the printer is an LU3 and uses a 3270 display stream. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Alexander Huemer [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 12:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: How to set up a 3270 printer under OS/390? Blast from the past, I know. Maybe somebody here remembers how this is done. I have a 4224, connected to a 3174 that is talking APPN to OS/390. The printer registers successfully on the 3174, I see a 'p' at the port that it is connected to in the 'Status Summary' screen of the 3174. Searching for documents that would explain how OS/390 / VTAM is to be configured, I didn't find much. [1] provides guidance in regard to a MODEENT macro that is supposed to work. But, where to go from there? I found [2], but RSCS seems to be a VM-only thing. I assume I'll have to configure the thing somehow in VTAM, though there must be more to it I think. If anybody can point me to relevant documents or has a 20 year old wrinkled-up cheat-sheet in their deskdrawer, I would appreciate a little help. -Alex [1] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/gddm?topic=gddm-4224-ipds-printer [2] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zvm/7.2?topic=connections-sna-3270-printer-support ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
