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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F. Lambert)
Wed Mar 8 08:36:39 2000
Message-Id: <10003081338.AA06867@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 00 08:30:23 EST
From: "David F. Lambert" <LAMBERT@mitvma.mit.edu>
To: jeffbant@us.ibm.com,
Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Phil Muolo <pmuolo@us.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 3 Mar 2000 16:08:06 -0700
Hi Jeff,
I've been buried for a week or two - so, sorry it took a few days
to acknowledge your note re testing IPM. Given that Mike Whitson
and Rocklyn Clarke will be involved with the testing directly, I think it
would be wise for me to defer the actual plans for testing to them.
Mike & Rocklyn,
Please put your heads together - review Jeff's note below and develop
a test plan for IPM. I'm certainly available to provide you with
guidance and help from the mainframe perspective. However, we'll
need you two guys to own this effort. Please include the team's
email list when you respond to Jeff. Thanks in advance!
-Dave
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 16:08:06 -0700 Jeff said:
>
>
>David, I would like to verify my understanding of what you might want to
>test during the beta (I hope) period with InfoPrint Manager:
>
> #1 Accept PS data from SAP running on VM (?) and print on a IP60
>TCP/IP attached printer (600 DPI).
>
> - Question how does the SAP PS data get to IPM? (LPR?) You
>would probably feed IPM like you feed the HP's today.
>
> - Installed IP60 requires 10/100BaseTX Ethernet attachment
>feature #4165 ($750) field installed.
>.
> #2 Continue to print legacy systems output (IPDS) on the IP60 from
>VM. (Today this prints via 370 channel connection to the
>3827, 3160 and 4245's .)
>
> - This path would be replaced by connecting IPM to VM via the
>network and send IPDS data via SNA to IPM's PSF Direct feature.
>The PSF Direct feature would convert the datastream from SNA to TCP/IP (low
> overhead) and forward to the TCP/IP attached IP60. The 3827
>won't play unless a Micro Channel RS/6000 is used and a 370
>channel card is purchased for EACH printer requiring a Bus &Tag interface.
> The 4245's won't play at all as Line Printers aren't supported
>via IPM. 6400's would be an alternative as they are TCP/IP
>addressable and IPM capable. (I recommend TCP/IP printers as 370 Channel
>cards are $$ and limit the purchase of RS/6000s to less economic
>models.)
>
> - IPM server requires eNetwork Communications Server V5 to
>support SNA
>
> #3 Accept PS/PCL data targeted to a subset of HP's to be defined on
>IPM and used for testing.
>
> - This test would be used to demonstrate accounting features of
>IPM and use of the to GUI's to define and control the network type
>printers and show security features. The datastream would be "passthrough"
>and not involve a transform on IPM (low resource consumption) Could
>also handle any datastream type but others may involve a
>transform. (Higher resource consumption)
>
> The first Low speed printer feature includes license to drive 20
>printers. Additional blocks of low speed printers are added in
>groups of 40 up to a max charge of 220 printers. I would recommend the 1st
>group (20 HP printers) for our testing based on what I understood
>yesterday. Realizing this number could grow to 500+ in
>production.
>
> #4 Would you want to generate AFP resources (Pagedefs and Formdefs)
>on the AIX platform?
>
> Page Printing Formatting Aid (PPFA) is available as an option for
>IPM.
>
> #5 Do we want to look at DCE during this test period?
>
>Have I missed anything? Please send me a note with additions and/or
>subtractions and I will modify!
>
>
>Current thoughts on IPM server configuration:
>
> 5745-E42 InfoPrint Manager V3.2 (beta not a guarantee)
> Base Code
> Client Code
> 1st Low Speed attachment feature (20 low speed printers
><100ppm)
> PPFA
> 5765-D20 eNetwork Communications Server for AIX V5.0 (SNA for AIX)
> 5639-I35 Distributed Communications Environment
>
>Note: MIT to locate an RS/6000 capable of driving test configuration. (May
>borrow my 43P but it offers limited perf.)
>
>
>Jeff Banta
>IBM Printing Systems Co.
>404 Wyman St.
>Waltham, Ma. 02454
>8-362-2295 / 781-895-2295
>mobile 617-513-5400
>internet jeffbant@us.ibm.com
>
>
