Importing Personal Communications 3270 printer sessions

A Personal Communications 3270 printer session can use the normal printer drivers or a printer definition table (PDT). A 5250 session uses the normal printer drivers for both standard and Host Print Transform (HPT) printing; for standard printing, it can also use a PDT.

A Host On-Demand 3270 printer session can use the normal printer drivers or a PDT; a 5250 session always uses HPT without a PDT.

When you import a Personal Communications session, the following conversions are made:

• 3270 sessions that use the normal printer drivers
  These sessions are configured to use the normal printer drivers.
• 3270 sessions that use a Printer Definition Table (PDT)
  The import facility attempts to identify a corresponding Host On-Demand PDT. If an exact match is not found, the new session is configured to use whichever Host On-Demand PDT provides the closest match. If a match cannot be made, the Basic ASCII text mode PDT is chosen.

  Sessions that are configured to use Printer Definition Tables (PDTs) are mapped to use the same PDT in Host On-Demand only if the Host On-Demand PDT exists when the session is imported. You may have to work with the users to set this up.

  For example, suppose there is a Personal Communications printer session named mySess.ws that uses a PDT named myPD.pdt. Before mySess.ws is imported into Host On-Demand, you must obtain a copy of myPD.pdf, place it on the Host On-Demand server and run the PDT compiler. (See PDT Compiler for help on compiling PDFs.) This creates the Host On-Demand PDT, named myPD.hodpdt, and also registers the PDT with the HOD server. You can then import mySess.ws, and myPD.pdt will map to myPD.hodpdt on the server.

• Personal Communications 5250 sessions that use standard printing and the normal printer drivers
  These sessions are configured to use HPT and the IBM 4201-1 Proprinter.
• Personal Communications 5250 sessions that use HPT
  These sessions are configured to use HPT and the printer that most closely matches the Personal Communications printer. If a match cannot be made, the IBM 4201-1 Proprinter is chosen.
• Personal Communications sessions that use standard printing and a PDT
  These sessions are configured to use HPT and the printer that most closely matches the Personal Communications PDT. If a match cannot be made, the IBM 4201-1 Proprinter is chosen.