Telnet 3270E Printer Association

The Telnet 3270E standard lets you specify an association between a display and a printer session. This is unique to telnet, and is not available in the SNA environment. When you configure a display session, Personal Communications lets you specify an associated printer session. This function is implemented on Communications Server and zSeries™ TN3270E servers.

The association starts at the telnet server. In the server's configuration, there is a one-to-one correspondence when defining associated printers. When LU names and relations are already defined by the server, the server will assign the printer LU for the client. Each printer LU is configured as associated with a particular display LU.

Advantages of this association are as follows:

If sessions are associated, the person who configures the client workstation does not have to know any detail about the printer session because the associated pairs are defined at the telnet server.
When you start the display session, the associated printer session is started automatically. If the printer session is configured to direct output to a printer that is near you, and if you ensure that your host applications print to that session, it is obviously convenient.

Note:

Stopping a TN3270E session will automatically close an associated printer session, if that option was selected when configuring the session.