Configuring Systems for Terminals, Printers, and Other Serial Devices (32022-90057)

Terminal and Printer Profiles
What is a Profile
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• Whether or not the DTC will perform a PAD test at connection establishment time to
determine the PADs behavior.
• Whether the DTC will send an initial profile to set the PAD to default X.3
parameters at connection establishment time. (If you set this option to N you must
also set “PAD test requested” to N.
• Whether to allow changes to X.3 parameters after connection establishment.
• How the data forwarding option is set. (You may select a data forwarding option only
if you request “X.3 setting” to allow changes to X.3 parameters.)
• The device class names associated with the terminal.
The following four parameters will be ignored when a profile is configured for non-nailed
devices: PAD test requested, send initial profile, X.3 setting requested, and data
forwarding parm #3 and #4. These four parameters will also be ignored when the
connection is made through a public PAD, because the connection will be established to a
non-nailed device on the host.
PAD Printer Profiles
A PAD printer profile defines these characteristics of a PAD printer:
• The profile name
• The printer type used (26 for PAD printer) or the printer type file name if you are
using a terminal type file created through the workstation configurator utility
(TTUTIL.PUB.SYS).
• The record width in characters (bytes).
• Whether the printer is initially spooled.
• Whether the printer uses a native language character set.
• Whether or not the DTC will perform a PAD test at connection establishment time to
determine the PADs behavior.
• Whether the DTC will send an initial profile to set the PAD to default X.3
parameters at connection establishment time. (If you set this option to N you must
also “PAD test requested” to N.
• Whether to allow changes to X.3 parameters after connection establishment.
• The device class names associated with the printer.
Host Profiles
A Host profile is used to configure DTC ports to be used for extended switching
connections. Extended switching connections are also referred to as back-to-back
connections. If Host profiles are configured on DTC 16RX ports, all values for the profiles
are ignored. The ports on a DTC 16RX are configured using the DTC 16RX Manager on
the HP 9000 host and not the HP e3000.
A Host profile defines the following port characteristics on the DTC:
• The name of the port.
• The line speed, in bits per second.