JES Queue for Printers delivers reports from the JES output queue to TCP/IP or VTAM printers. JQP delivers output directly to the TCP/IP printer or a Line Printer Daemon (LPD). The LCDS feature provides support for Xerox's DocuPrint or DocuTech devices over TCP/IP eliminating SNA hardware. Replace costly BUS/TAG printer hardware using your existing TCP/IP printer network. JES Queue for Printers will interface with Solimar Systems, Barr Systems, Rochester Software Associates and Xerox. No JES definitions or changes are required. Option to support the Rijndael encryption algorithm, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is available.

JES Queue for Printers uses the information from the ROUTE PRINT, OUTPUT or DD statements to determine the reports' destination. Every CICS printer in your shop can now be used as a destination for output from batch jobs. Likewise, 3270-enabled PC printers defined to VTAM and printers defined to the TCP/IP network are available for batch output.

JQP 2.5 and higher includes supporting email notification for reports printed successfully, reports failing to print, reports re-queued and for printers requiring intervention. JQP can immediately notify the person in charge of the printer when a problem occurs.  Imagine being notified and correcting printing problems before being contacted by the end user with the phrase “where is my printout”.
In addition, JQP now provides an ICMP PING command to test connectivity between JQP and the printer.

Product details

• VTAM printer types supported are SNA, NON-SNA and SCS. 
• Supports TCP/IP printers using the RFC 1179 Line Printer Daemon (LPD) protocol or if supported by the network printer adapter, "direct" socket connection.
• Reports in the JES output queue are automatically selected based on their DESTID and printed to the printer defined for that destination.
• Both machine code and ASA control characters are supported.
• FCB emulation is supported using the FCB images from the SYS1.IMAGELIB library.
• A standard separator page is available and an exit is provided for customizing the separator page.
• Printers may be started or stopped as necessary and reports may be halted and then restarted from the last page printed or any line within the report.
• Forms mounting is supported. Reports will not print unless the FORM of the report matches the current printer’s FORM.
• Commands are available to display the status of reports currently printing or waiting to be printed. Commands are also available to manipulate both printers and reports.
• Security is provided to prevent users from accessing reports and printers.
• When multiple reports are to be printed on the same printer, the report’s priority determines which report will be printed first. This allows for "HOT" reports to be printed first. Each printer defined has a specified maximum number of lines allowed to prevent reports which exceed this number from printing on the printer.
• Printer translation tables are available to convert certain hexadecimal characters in the report to prevent hardware errors.
• Reports are directed to a destination name (which may or may not have the same name as the printer). This allows the physical printer to have different options (separator pages, page eject options, line width, maximum number of lines, and translate table) based on the destination name.