Oce PRISMAproduction, Reference Manual

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Installation and Customization
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1 SPS and PP/ROUTER Overview
SPS accepts spool print data streams and passes them to the ROUTER client for
distribution via TCPIP to socket serving spool systems such as PRISMAproduction-APA.
There is no conversion performed on the data. The target server destination is based on
ROUTER routing table parameters which are selected based on the SPOOL dataset
charactersistcs of CLASS, DEST and FORMS.
SPS uses only standard documented interfaces. No modifications are introduced in the
operating system environments. SPS uses the Functional Subsystem Interface (FSI) to
communicate with the Job Entry subsystem (JES) installed in the host MVS system SPS
uses the Device Driving System (DDS) interface to communicate with the spooling
application (POWER) in the host VSE system.
PP/ROUTER is a REXX/370 application that adheres to the SAA standards and therefore
uses only standard interfaces within the operating system.
OS/390 (MVS)
FSI Interface
The FSI is an IBM supported customer interface permitting an address space to
communicate with the spooling and operator facilities of the installed JES. The FSI
supports such functions as connecting and disconnecting Functional Subsystems (FSS‘s)
and Functional Subsystem Applications (FSA's) to JES (establishing and terminating
communication), opening and closing spool output files, reading spool records, receiving
operator or JES initiated orders, receiving posts from JES, and sending responses to JES.
SPS is defined to JES in the JES initialization parameters at installation time as one or
more FSS's, each with one or more FSA's, which are printer drivers. These FSA's run as
subtasks of the FSS they are associated with. One FSS and its active FSA's reside in one
address space.
When the operator issues a start printer to any SPS controlled device, if the FSS for this
printer has not been started, an address space is created and the FSS is loaded into the
address space and initialized. This is followed by an FSA driver being associated with the