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XCOM Print Driver

Use this print driver to automatically transfer all types of CA Spool print files, including PDF/HTML/RTF wrapped text files, using CA XCOM Data Transport directly to remote XCOM servers running on various platforms for further processing.

The XCOM 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 transferred to a remote XCOM server.

You can specify XCOM report attributes and processing options:

• On the printer level using the 64-byte TCPHOST parameter.
• On the printer level using the 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: TCPHOST parameter is processed first, DRIVPRM1-4 parameters second and OUTPUT ADDRESS parameter is processed third.

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

You can automatically generate unique identifying names; that is, you can specify that the FILENAME= remote-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.