Using cicsprnt

Output can be sent to a printer attached to a port, such as LPT1. Alternatively, a command can be issued to process the data into a format more suitable for specialized printers. You can have multiple printer terminal emulators running simultaneously.
An application running on a server can direct output to a printer in one of the following ways:
  • An application running from a terminal can initiate printing by sending a map or data with the PRINT indicator set.
  • A user can start a 3270 Print Terminal Emulator, at a client, using the cicsprnt command. A 3270 Print Terminal Emulator must be started for a netname or model terminal definition predefined in the server's terminal tables. Output is directed to such a device by starting a transaction against the printer device.
  • At client workstations you can use the PrintScreen key, as defined by the keyboard mapping file. Blank lines are not printed by default. A blank line is defined as a line that contains only null characters or non-displayable fields, or is undefined in the BMS map. However, there are options available to override the default behaviour of cicsprnt, see cicsprnt options for more information.

The maximum screen size is 27 rows by 132 columns. This is because the Client daemon supports the ASCII-7 subset of the 3270 data stream architecture, which supports only 12 bit addressing.


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