The cicsprnt command controls 3270 printer terminal emulation.
An application running on a server can direct output to a printer in one
of the following ways:
- An application running from a terminal can initiate printing by sending
a map or data with the PRINT indicator set.
- A user can start a 3270 Print Terminal Emulator, at a client, using the cicsprnt command.
A 3270 Print Terminal Emulator must be started for a netname or model terminal
definition predefined in the server’s terminal tables. Output is directed
to such a device by starting a transaction against the printer device.
- At client workstations you can use the PrintScreen key, as defined by
the keyboard mapping file. However, any lines that contain only null characters
are not printed. For a ‘blank’ line to be printed, it must contain
at least one space character.
For cicsprnt emulators, the maximum screen
size is 27 rows by 132 columns. This is because the Client daemon supports the
ASCII-7 subset of the 3270 data stream architecture, which supports only 12
bit addressing. For more information, see CICS Transaction Gateway: Programming Guide.