JES is Good

From the earliest days of LRS, we have embraced the legendary mainframe JES spool as the heart of our product suite. Why? Because no widely-available alternative spool has the proven reliability, scalability, and performance of this time-tested solution. But how do you utilize JES for applications that were not designed to write SYSOUT to the spool on their own?

The Dynamic Report System (DRS) provides an effective means of routing reports from batch jobs, online applications (i.e., CICS, IMS, IDMS), and remote TCP/IP hosts to the JES2 or JES3 spool. DRS can also route to a DASD file on the z/OS host system, or to a UNIX HFS file using the Unix System Services (USS) element of z/OS.

Many Platforms & Applications; One Central Point of Control

DRS extends the functionality of the LRS product suite to all platforms, providing facilities to capture, manage and control documents originating from any host. By implementing standard network protocols, DRS is able to receive documents from most operating systems as well as offer certified integration with SAP and SoftwareAG applications. For extended control, DRS also provides a simple client interface, available for most common platforms, offering direct control of document submission attributes and processing options and letting remote users or applications query or cancel previously submitted documents.

By enabling documents from any platform to be securely routed to the JES spool, DRS lets IBM Z customers establish a reliable, mainframe-based central point of control for managing output from any platform or operating system to any printer, fax server, email recipient, content management system or other output destination. This helps them save money and increases both the reliability and security of document delivery in their enterprises.

Did You Know?

DRS software runs on an enterprise platform featuring 99.9999999% uptime and reliability as well as quantum-safe cryptographic security.

DRS Extension products:

DRS/TCPIP: Captures output from TCP/IP hosts and places on JES spool for centralized output management

DRS/Natural: Certified interface to SoftwareAG’s Natural application environment

DRS/OutputManager: Certified interface to SAP application platform

DRS/STI: Improves the usability of the DRS Virtual Printer Interface by reducing # of virtual printer definitions

DRS/Secure: Receives & decrypts encrypted output sent by other LRS secure print solutions and writes output to the JES spool

Pioneers in Enterprise Output Management since 1982

For more than four decades, our VPS software has been helping the world’s largest enterprises manage the delivery of critical documents from any application on any platform to any destination on any network. Today, VPS and its extensions are running in more than 5,000 installations on six continents – from the world’s financial institutions to manufacturers, telecom companies, hospitals, transportation, governments, and more.

From a single mainframe product, the LRS suite has grown into a complete family of solutions with dozens of modules to meet the specific needs of customers around the globe. Our in-house team of developers continues to actively enhance our solutions, ensuring reliable document delivery for decades to come. LRS still does business with our very first customer and we work hard to continually earn our clients’ trust.

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