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Thanks for your quick response with the temporary pass-string. I have completed activities with my test version of the JQP product against an LPAR running Z/OS 1.11, and (as expected) have encountered no problems or issues. I’d like to mention once again how pleased we are with this product, after previously running LRS’s components. This product is solid, always functions, performs EXACTLY what we need it to do for us, and for a reasonable cost. We are very happy we made the switch to your system.
~ Kevin - Company name withheld by request
The product is very inexpensive especially when you compare it to VPS which was used before. It only takes about an hour to install, very easy. I was able to create special page formatting to print checks as well as letters that go out which included letterheads.
~ Cynthia Davis, Systems Programmer, JB Hunt Transport, Inc
"JES Queue for Printers, JES Report Broker and VTAM Virtual Printer provided the same feature/function as their replacements at a much reduced cost. Installation was simple and straightforward and was completed across 5 lpars within a 2 week period. They have become 'set it and forget it' products. We now have JQP on 6 lpars and VVP on 7 lpars."
~ Steve Trapp, System Programmer Team Lead, GA and CA
"Irish Dairy board have been users of the MacKinney printing products VVP and JQP since 2004. We use JQP to route mainframe print to TCP/IP network printers, and VVP to route print from CICS transactions to JES spool We had previously used Levi, Ray and Shoup's VPS and DRS. We changed to the MacKinney products when the cost of upgrade of the LRS products for a proposed new mainframe was prohibitive. We chose them because they gave us exactly the functionality we required, at approximately 20% of the cost of LRS. JQP and VVP were installed and just worked. In the past five years we've only had two occasions to call on MacKinney support - both times for configuration issues for new printers. The response was fast and accurate. We've been very satisfied with the products. Our only problem is that we didn't install them earlier."
~ David Ingoldsby, Technical Support Manager, Irish Dairy Board
JES Queue for Printers Details
JES Queue for Printers will print any report from the JES output queue to printers defined to VTAM and TCP/IP printers.
- 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.
- Supports Email notification for reports printed successfully, reports failing to print successful, reports re-queued and for printers requiring invervention.
- AFP print transforms are supported by interfacing to the MacKinney Systems product MacKinney Print Transform (MPT).
