ZipPrint

ZipPrint provides an easy, automatic way to print a displayed document in a 3270 Display session. With a few mouse clicks you can print the entire contents of a displayed document. This capability is similar to the ZipPrint capability in the IBM Personal Communications product.

ZipPrint is implemented as a Host On-Demand macro and is an example of how powerful macros can be. You might want to implement custom macros of your own like ZipPrint.

ZipPrint works by quickly paging through all the screens of the document, capturing the data to be printed from each screen, and sending it to the configured print destination. ZipPrint then optionally positions the document to the same screen that was displayed when you started the ZipPrint.

You can also print the current contents of the session window just as you would do with File > Print Screen.

A tutorial on ZipPrint is available in the Host On-Demand Information Center, which is located at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/hodhelp/v10r0/index.jsp.

ZipPrint is also available in VM/CMS systems. Refer to VM/CMS options for further details.

By default, a single ZipPrint operation can print a maximum of 10,000 application screens. If you want to raise or lower this maximum, change the value in the Set Recognition Limit field on the Advanced Tab of the Customize Profiles window (see Set Recognition Limit).

Printer Setup options and Page Setup options

With ZipPrint you can use the same printer setup options that are available for a 3270 Printer session, including Printer destination (Windows Printer, Other Printer, or File), Printer Definition Tables, and Adobe PDF output for the File destination.

You can also use all the page setup options that are available for a 3270 Printer session and that are appropriate for 3270 Display datastream (LU2), including Font, treatment of nulls, and Printer-Font Code Page.

The Printer Setup options and the Page Setup options that you set for ZipPrint in a particular 3270 Display session affect all ZipPrints from sessions started from that same session configuration. However, the Printer Setup options and the Page Setup options for ZipPrint do not affect the printer setup options and page setup options for: Any 3270 Printer session. Any File > Print Screen in any 3270 Display session. ZipPrint in any 3270 Display session started from a different session configuration. However, if your print destination is a Windows printer, and you use the Windows Print Setup dialog to make configuration changes to that Windows printer, such as an orientation of Landscape rather than Portrait, then those particular configuration changes will affect any Host On-Demand printing activity that uses that Windows printer, including: Printing from any 3270 Printer session. ZipPrint in any 3270 Display session.

Document profile

In order to print the entire contents of the currently displayed document, ZipPrint requires you to create a named profile that contains three types of information:

• A simple description of the format of the application screen (such as a string of characters that appears in the same place on each application screen).
• The coordinates of the rectangular area in which the application displays the content of a document.
• The keys that the application provides for paging forward and backward through a document.

If the application displays all documents in the format that you have described in the profile, then you can use the same profile to print any document displayed using the application.

Two predefined profiles are provided:

• OVNote, for the Office Vision Log Viewer
• ISPF, for the ISPF Editor.

ZipPrint operations

The ZipPrint operations are located on a submenu that appears when you click File > ZipPrint.

Print From Application - Auto

Tells ZipPrint to search the available profiles for a description that matches the currently displayed document, and if a matching profile is found, to ZipPrint the document using the parameters in the profile.

Print From Application - Select Profile

Tells ZipPrint to display a list of the available profiles and to ZipPrint the currently displayed document using the profile that you select.

Print Screen

Prints the currently displayed 3270 Display session screen.

Cancel Print From Application

Cancels a ZipPrint currently in progress. This menu item is disabled unless a ZipPrint is currently in progress.

Customize Profiles

Displays a window that allows you to create, edit, or delete a ZipPrint profile.

Printer Setup

Displays a Printer setup window with the same options that are available for a 3270 Printer session, including Printer destination (Windows Printer, Other Printer, or File), Printer Definition Tables, and Adobe PDF output for the File destination, and others. This printer setup is used only for ZipPrints, and is used for all ZipPrints from this 3270 Display session.

Page Setup

Displays a Page setup window with the same options that are available for a 3270 Printer session, except those that are not appropriate for a 3270 Display datastream (LU2). This page setup is used only for ZipPrints, and is used for all ZipPrints from this 3270 Display session.

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