BARR/PRINT390 for IPDS provides an inexpensive alternative to channel extenders. This product allows you to connect your channel-attached IPDS Acronym for Intelligent Printer Data Stream. A printer data stream generated from AFP documents and resources by the Print Services Facility (PSF). printers directly to the print server running on a Windows platform anywhere on your TCP/IP network. Your host’s PSF will convert the AFP Acronym for Advanced Function Presentation. A type of document data stream that is portable. AFP is not a printer data stream, but you can view or print AFP documents. data stream to IPDS and communicate using TCP/IP or SNA directly to your channel attached IPDS printer through the print server.
With BARR/PRINT390 for IPDS over SNA, you can connect to MVS mainframes running PSF/MVS through Microsoft's SNA gateway – Microsoft SNA Server or Microsoft Host Integration Server (HIS) – and use BARR/CHANNEL with ESCON or Bus & Tag cables as your physical host connection.
With BARR/PRINT390 for IPDS over IP, you can connect to any host through an IP socket.
BARR/PRINT390 for IPDS contains the following features.
Supports up to eight printers per adapter
Supports the following Bus & Tag printers:
IBM – 3825, 3827, 3828, 3835, 3900
Xerox – IPS printers
Océ (Siemens) – 2030-2, 2050-200, 2075-200, 2090-4, 2140-4, 2240-4, 2300-4, A-twin (when used with BARR/PRINT CHANNEL for IPDS)
Other – IPDS Group3 equivalent printers
Control of the printer remains with PSF on the mainframe. All commands for restarting and reprinting remain in one place.
Attaches printers to any suitable client computer in the SNA gateway domain
Shares the BARR/CHANNEL-OUT adapter with Barr Enterprise Print Server
Supports up to four adapters per installation
