Infoprint Central

Infoprint Central is a web-based print management system primarily for help desk operators. However, other authorized users or job submitters can also use it. Infoprint Central works with IP PrintWay™ extended mode. With Infoprint Central, you can:

• Work with print jobs: You can find and work with print jobs that are on the JES spool. Plus, you can see more information about print jobs that Infoprint Server or PSF for z/OS®, V4R4 or later, has processed. For example, you can see whether an Infoprint Server print job completed successfully and where it printed – even if the print job is no longer on the JES spool.

  You can use several different search criteria to find print jobs. After you find a print job, you can delete, hold, release, move, or change the priority of the print job. And, you can see all messages for that one print job.

• Work with printers: You can find and work with printers that are defined in the Printer Inventory – including AFP printers controlled by PSF (called PSF printers), and all printers to which IP PrintWay extended mode sends print jobs (called IP PrintWay printers).

  You can also work with PSF AFP Download Plus senders as if they were PSF printers. An AFP Download Plus sender sends print jobs to a receiver on another system for printing, emailing, or faxing.

  You can use a variety of search criteria to find printers. After you find a printer, you can see its status, the printer's job queue, and view other properties of the printer. You can do these printer actions:

  • PSF printers: Start, stop, space, interrupt, pause (JES2 only), ping, turn online, turn offline, and reset. Also, you can change forms and other job-selection criteria, you can see all the messages from PSF, V4R4 or later, for that one printer, and you can link to the printer's web page. If the PSF printer is an AFP Download Plus sender, you can do a limited set of PSF printer actions.
  • IP PrintWay printers: Start, stop, redirect, restore, ping, turn online, turn offline, and reset. Also, you can see all the messages from Infoprint Server for that one printer, and you can link to the printer's web page.

  Some printer actions (ping, turn online, turn offline, and reset) are available only for TCP/IP-attached printers.

• Work with NetSpool logical units: You can work with any NetSpool logical units (LUs) that are defined to NetSpool in the Printer Inventory and also defined to VTAM®.

  You can find LUs by name. After you find a NetSpool LU, you can start and stop it. When you start an LU, that LU is started in both Infoprint Server and VTAM. Likewise, when you stop an LU, that LU is stopped in both Infoprint Server and VTAM. You can also display information about the current VTAM session established with a NetSpool LU.

• Display printer definitions: You can display the properties of any printer definition in the Printer Inventory. You can use a variety of search criteria to find printer definitions, including the printer definition name and the printer's location. This can help you find the name of a printer in your area.
• Check system status: You can see the status of all Infoprint Server daemons and tasks. This can help you determine the cause of a printing problem. You can also start and stop IP PrintWay job selection rules to change which print jobs IP PrintWay processes.
• Audit Infoprint Central actions: You can find out who used Infoprint Central to do an action on a print job, printer, or NetSpool LU. For example, you can find out who deleted a print job.