Setting Up - IBM Mainframe (zSeries)
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AXIS 5570e User’s Manual
Configuring the
Mainframe
Host System
These procedures are compulsory for printing in the IBM Mainframe
environment.
Configuring the host system requires you to do the following:
•
Make sure that a VTAM Logon-mode entry is available for your Axis
Network Print Server.
•
Create the VTAM Definition for the Major Node where the Print Server
definition is to be placed.
Before you Begin
Make note of the Axis Network Print Server serial number that is found
on the underside label of the print server.
Important:
1. Define a
VTAM Major Node Definition
where the Print Server
definitions will be placed. Using a channel attached 3174 as a gateway to
the host, this definition is typically defined as a
Local Major Node
.
If you are using a remotely attached gateway via a 37X5 communications
controller or a LAN attached 3172, you will be working with a
Switched Major Node definition
.
2. Add the Print Server
PU
and
LU
definitions to the major node definition.
Note:
3. Make sure that the corresponding
VTAM Logon-mode
entries are
available and that the appropriate
LU
session types (
LU1
or
LU3
) are used.
4.
Vary ACTive
the
VTAM Major Node
definition for the Axis Network
Print Server.
When using a concentrator gateway between the host and your print server, it is not necessary
to define separate VTAM Major Node and PU definitions for the Axis Network Print Server. You
will instead be working with the gateway VTAM definitions. Since the Axis Network Print
Server will appear to the host as one or several LU's attached to the gateway PU, you need only
add LU definitions to the gateway major node definition and then proceed to item 3 below.
For Switched Major Node definitions you need to:
•
Add the IDBLK (default = E07) and IDNUM (default = last 5 digits of the Axis
Network Print Server MAC address) entries to the PU definition.
•
Code a PATH definition using the unit’s full 12 digit MAC address.
Example:
An
Axis Network Print Server with a MAC/node address of
00408C100086 will be defined as:
PA5570e1 PATH DIALNO=010400408C100086, GID=1, FID=1,
GRPNM=gggggg
‘GRPNM’ specifies the symbolic name of a GROUP statement in an NCP major node. That
GROUP statement defines a logical group of SDLC switched lines or token-ring switched lines.
