[453] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: InfoPrint Manager and SAP/R3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David M. Rosenberg)
Mon Aug 14 20:48:15 2000
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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 20:48:07 -0400
To: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <RCLARKE@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
From: "David M. Rosenberg" <Rosenberg@MIT.EDU>
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Enterprise Print Delivery Team <PRINTDEL@MIT.EDU>
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At 15:15 -0400 on 08/11/2000, Rocklyn E. Clarke wrote, in part (in a
message with the subject "InfoPrint Manager and SAP/R3"):
>The following URL describes some of the ways in which IBM's InfoPrint Manager
>product is designed to work with SAP/R3 systems:
>
> http://www.printers.ibm.com/R5PSC.NSF/Web/sapfcts32
>
>I don't know if any of you have seen this page already, but I suspect that it
>will be new information for at least some of you. Hopefully you will find it
>useful. We would be especially interested to know what implications any of
>this material might have for our rollout and testing of the product.
Rocklyn,
Thank you for the pointer. I read the page and have a few questions. It
says "You can add Infoprint Manager servers to your SAP R/3 Version 3
print enterprise without modifying your existing SAP configuration.
Install an Infoprint AIX client on your SAP server system, and Infoprint
Manager will recognize your existing lpr-based print and query
commands."
Do you understand the "Infoprint AIX client" to be something that can
only be used with an SAP system running on AIX, or do they have an
"Infoprint AIX client" for the DEC (now Compaq) Alpha that will talk to
an Infoprint AIX Server? I fear it may be the former. If that is the
case, you should try to push IBM to provide a way that MIT can use the
same functionality with our SAP servers. Will the Enterprise Print
Delivery Team (try to) obtain an appropriate Infoprint Manager client
for our SAP environment?
The writeup refers to features in Infoprint Manager Release 3.2. Which
release of Infoprint Manager are we getting?
The writeup says "You can add Infoprint Manager servers to your SAP R/3
Version 4 print enterprise to print all data streams and receive
enhanced job status from the SAP R/3 system. To use this support,
configure your SAP devices to use Access Method E and define Infoprint
Manager as an Output Management System for your SAP R/3 Version 4
enterprise."
If this is accessible to us (i.e. it doesn't require SAP on AIX), it
would appear to be useful. Are you planning any tests to verify that
this will work in our environment?
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/David M. Rosenberg rosenberg@mit.edu 1-617-253-8054
