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AS/400 IBM Network Station: Techniques for Deployment in a WAN
5648-C05 (R3.0) products. It is important to remember that Network Stations
booted from an R3.0 NSM server can assess a V3R2 CISC AS/400 through
5250 Emulation. However, any Network Stations booting from a V3R2 system
does
not have the R3.0 enhancements available (for example, roaming
capability, DCHP support, separation of servers, and so on.) because NSM
R2.5 (not R3.0) is supported on V3R2.
Customers running R2.5 should migrate to R3.0 for:
• Support
• Year 2000 certification
• New functions
R2.5 to R3.0 is a seamless migration.
2.12 Printing with Your IBM Network Station
The following sections discuss configuring printers when using the IBM
Network Station.
2.12.1 Configuring Printers on an AS/400 System
You can configure printers for your Network Stations with the IBM Network
Station Manager program unless the datastream generated by the Network
Station application does not match a datastream that your printer
understands. Figure 10 on page 59 describes which datastreams the
common Network Station applications produce. If your Network Station
application does not produce a datastream that your printer understands, you
must send the print job to an AS/400 server. The AS/400 server transforms
the print job into the datastream of your choice.
Transforming print jobs requires OS/400 Version 4 Release 2 or later. For
example, if Network Station A in Figure 10 on page 59 generates a print job
from NC Navigator for Printer 1 (a Printer Control Language (PCL) printer),
the Network Station cannot send its print job directly to the printer. Because
NC Navigator can only generate PostScript (PS) datastreams, the Network
Station must send its print job to the AS/400 server, which will transform the
print job into a PCL datastream. A queue on the AS/400 server then sends
the transformed print job to Printer 1.
Note