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7. Printing with HOBCOM
7.1. General information
The HOBCOM printer control allows output of all data received on printers attached to the terminal (Eterminals or under certain conditions standard 3270 terminals). and on system printers. For this
purpose HOBCOM implements sever print programs. Basically these run in the background, i.e. that
they will not use a virtual or a real terminal. However, a connection to a terminal is sometimes
required, e.g. in order to start the programs, in order to wait or to terminate. The program COBA
serves to set up the connection.
The program NOTE has several functions: on the one hand Hardcopies may be printed, on the other
hand it simulates an 'electronic notebook' - similar to the Softcopy function of a HOB terminal.
Contrary to the Softcopy, which allows to save only a single screen view, using NOTE you may save
up to 8 screen views.
All screen views are automatically erased once the program NOTE is terminated.
The following 4 programs are available:
PRVM, PRTE, PRT1 and PRT2
PRTE may be used to send data from CICS to the VM-spool.
PRVM, PRT1 and PRT2 may print entries from the VM print-spool.
PRVM requires an individual class for each printer, while PRT1 only uses one printer class, that is
used by PRT2 to select various printers by means of TAG information.
In all of these programs (except PRT1) the parameter AGO is available. This parameters avoids that
the print must be resumed, by entering GO in the program COBA.
We recommend not to use this parameter, since the error messages are non-resident and therefore
you will no longer be able to analyze the causes of occurring interferences.
The print programs support various print parameters by the supplement PARAM=. In this way you
may determine the layout of your printer output.
7.1.1. Control of the output format
Each of the print programs (NOTE, PR3287, PR3770, PRVM and PRT2) permits the specifications of
parameters, which control the output format. These parameters set up form length, lines of characters
per line etc.
The parameters are a standard supply and can be found in your HOBCOM-TCT, labeled as
XCPRPAR. Currently the following parameters are available:
a) printer independent parameters
FORM
FORM2
FSP10
FSP10H
36 lines per page and 12 characters per inch
(96 lines per page and 158 characters per inch)
36 lines per page and 10 characters per inch
(80 lines per page and 132 characters per inch)
72 lines per page and 10 characters per inch
(80 lines per page and 132 characters per inch)
72 lines per page and 10 characters per inch
(80 lines per page and 132 characters per inch) and "hex feature", i.e. hex characters
may be sent to the printer
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