Overview

The Base Output Facility (BOF) provides a set of services for managing printing requests to 3270-type printers (or emulations). SNA LU types 0, 1, 3 and 6.2 protocols are supported. BOF supports printing to JES and printing to file. Print requests from Beta 93 to VTAM printers are handled by the BOF subsystem, which has to be set up for this purpose. The default name for the BOF started task is BETA07.

Note

Please see the relevant Beta product documentation for the use of the BOF components and their parameters.

What BOF does

The BOF (Beta 07) subsystem does the following:

• It prints to 3270-type VTAM printers.
• It controls the print request queues associated with these printers.

The Beta 07 started task must be active whenever a print request is issued to a VTAM printer by Beta nn.

Default names

The following shows the default names generated by the installation procedure:

+-----------------+ +------------------+
| Beta nn | | BOF |
| | | |
| SSID = BnnA |--------->| APPLID = BOF07 |
| STC = BETAnn | | SSID = B07A |
| B07_SSID=B07A | | STC = BETA07 |
+-----------------+ +------------------+

The Base Output Facility subsystem is indicated to Beta nn by the keyword B07_SSID in the parmlib member BnnLSTxx.