Reducing printing costs through remote pooling

Remote pooling allows the printers on multiple remote workstations to print the output of any remote in the pool. For more information about pooling remote workstations, see Pooling RJE workstations. JES2 changes any destination that specifies a specific remote workstation in the pool to the routing of the pool. This change occurs when JES2 interprets a destination starting with ‘R’, ‘RM’, or ‘RMT’. If Rdest, RMdest, or RMTdest is set to ‘USER’, then remote pooling does not occur (even if there is a DESTID(R5)).

Even so, much of the function of remote pooling can be achieved by using destids. For example, in Figure 1, remotes 5, 6, and 9 are pooled. The destids will ensure that SYSOUT routed to R5, R6, or R9 will receive a routing of remote 5.

Figure 1. Remote Pooling with RDEST=USER

DESTDEF RUSER=USER

RMT(5) ROUTECDE=5                 /* Define the remotes as pooled   */
RMT(6) ROUTECDE=5
RMT(9) ROUTECDE=5

DESTID(R5) DEST=N1R5,PRIMARY=YES  /* Define the DESTIDs as routing  */
DESTID(R6) DEST=N1R5              /* to the pooled remote           */
DESTID(R9) DEST=N1R5

Note: In this example, if a remote tries to sign on with a workstation name of ‘R9’, that workstation will actually sign on to remote 5. To avoid this problem, sign on with a workstation name of ‘REMOTE9’ or RMT9 (if RMTdest=REMOTE or there are no destids for RMT9).