Customization › TCP/IP PrintDirect › ESF Print Driver

ESF Print Driver

Use this print driver to automatically write all types of CA Spool print files, including PDF/HTML/RTF wrapped text files, directly into the same or another CA Spool system.

The ESF print driver provides support for:

• Text reports stored in EBCDIC without translation and with preservation of carriage control information
• Automatic conversion of text files into PDF, HTML or RTF files while being written to a CA Spool system

You can specify ESF report attributes and processing options:

• On the printer level using the 64-byte TCPHOST parameter
• On the printer level using the 4*60=240 bytes DRIVPRM1-4 parameters
• On the print file level using the 4*60=240 byte OUTPUT ADDRESS parameter

You can specify this using JCL or have it be automatically assigned using CA Spool DESTID definitions.

Note: The TCPHOST parameter is processed first, DRIVPRM1-4 parameters second and the OUTPUT ADDRESS parameter is processed last.

If you specify an ESF print driver parameter more than once, then the last specification is used. If the TCPHOST parameter is not used to specify ESF parameters, then you must specify a dummy TCPHOST parameter to use the ESF print driver.

You can automatically generate unique identifying names; that is, you can specify that the ESF file name must be synthesized from userid, destination, file name, file number, date, time, job number, job name, job class, job step, proc step, DD name, and fixed text.