Re: Printing 4GL reports to printer w/ MVS host

Steve, 4gl can be made to deal with escape sequences as variables. You can programmatically determine which printer you are printing to and have your program generate the appropriate sequence. This assumes you can determine which is the appropriate sequence and that it isn't modified by some terminal server on its way to the appropriate printer. Our work in this area was based in some code written by Dennis Pimple of Informix and published by our Colorado Informix users group. Our purpose was to try to print special characters (e.g. exponentiation) properly on various printers, but it might well apply to your situation. If you have further interest in what we have done, please contact me directly. -- Con Woodall Colorado St. U.; Veterinary Teach. Hosp.; Ft. Collins CO 80523; 303-491-1244 FAX 303-491-1205 cwoodall@vth1.vth.colostate.edu You can do anything with a computer, but you might not want to. -- On 30 Jan 1995, Steve Morrow wrote: } Here's one for you all that are also running MVS-- } } My users have a _sudden_ interest in having some of their 4GL-written } production reports--which are submitted under AIX in an RS6000 env and } currently print on an HP LJ4SI with embedded escape sequences--print to a } Xerox 4850 printer which runs under MVS. } } I have been told that this printer emulates a 3211 line printer, and that } any escape chars will print out as garbage. Moreover, a different print } que will need to be defined for each different print format, and that MVS } requires a Special Form Definition for each format. } } Needless to say...it appears that Systems & I are in for a lot of testing } and tweaking! I would REALLY like to hear from those of you who have } attempted such a thing. Is such a thing possible??? (I don't know a thing } about MVS!) Any input would be appreciated! } } Thanks...STEVE } -- } ____ ___ ________ ________ } /_ _] /_ ]/ ______)/ ______) _/| Steve Morrow, Sr. Programmer/Analyst } / _/ / / / (____ / /___ _/ | University of South Florida } / _/ / / \\____ ) / _____) _/ | Internet: smorrow@dotrisc.cfr.usf.edu } / _/___/ / ______/ / / / _/ | Voice : (813) 974-6889 } (_________)(________)(___)______/ |______________________________________ }