Overview

BARR/PRINT CHANNEL

BARR/PRINT CHANNEL is a software and hardware module of the Barr Enterprise Print Server that allows you to physically connect your Windows-based computer to your mainframe channel. It emulates multiple mainframe-attached printers and is a relatively simple method of printing from the mainframe to your local network printers.

BARR/PRINT CHANNEL Overview

BARR/PRINT CHANNEL offers two options.

Using BARR/PRINT CHANNEL you can direct mainframe print jobs to the spool, and then from the spool you can direct the jobs to existing network print queues on a LAN. If you add the BARR/PRINT390 module, you can also share mainframe channel printers with the rest of your network.

Depending on the other Barr product options you install, BARR/PRINT CHANNEL also allows VAX Acronym for Virtual Address Extension. A family of 32-bit minicomputers introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1978., UNIX An operating system for workstations developed by AT&T Bell Laboratories that features multiprogramming in a multiuser environment., and AS/400 hosts to share the mainframe channel printers (with the BARR/PRINT390 module) and network printers.

Because BARR/PRINT CHANNEL emulates a 3211-type channel printer, you must ask your host programmer to configure the mainframe to recognize and communicate with the BARR/PRINT CHANNEL device.

BARR/PRINT CHANNEL includes the following features.

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