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Defining the Printer to CA IDMS

After installation of CA Dispatch, it is necessary to run a batch Sysgen of the CA IDMS system, referred to as the User Generation (Usergen). Printers, terminals, and users are defined to CA IDMS through the Usergen. The JCL member, DSEXUSR1, is in the common JCL library, CADSJCL.

Two types of printer definitions are required to identify a printer device to CA IDMS: a physical terminal element (PTE) and a logical terminal element (LTE). Make the indicated changes to the input member to the Usergen job. The appropriate member DSNETWKX, can be found in CADSOPTN.

1. To change the PTE, find the PTERM VTMPT017 statement:

       PTERM VTMPT017
               DISABLED          <= Change to enable
               IN LINE VTMSYS01
               MAXIMUM ERROR IS 30
               PRINTER DESTINATION IS VTMPRT1
               TYPE IS 3287   <= Change to type of VTAM printer
               ACQUIRE
               FORMFEED
               MODEL IS 2
               NAME IS PRT0157. <= Change to VTAM printer name
   

   (This is the VTAM LU name)

2. To change the LTE, find the following statement:

       LTERM VTMPT017
               PTERM IS VTMPT017
               AUTOTASK IS NULL
               ENABLE
               PRINTER CLASS ADD ALL NOBANNER <== *
               CHECKPOINT IS OFF
               UPPER.
   

In the line PRINTER CLASS ADD ALL NOBANNER, ALL means that a label sent to any CA IDMS print class is printed on this device.

For example, you can also designate to send labels only to CA IDMS print classes 1 and 2, which are printed on this device:

PRINTER CLASS ADD (1 2) NOBANNER

If you only have one printer for labels, use PRINTER CLASS ADD ALL NOBANNER. It is not necessary for users to know a specific CA IDMS class when filling in the class information on the CA Dispatch screens. The label is still printed regardless of the class entered.