Formatting for non-CICS printers

For some printers managed outside CICS, you can format output with BMS. However, for most printers you need to meet the format requirements of the application that drives the printer.

Formatting output with BMS, is explained in Programming for non-CICS printers . The format requirements of the application that drives the printer can be the device format or an intermediate form dictated by the application. For conventional line printers, formatting is a matter of producing line images and, sometimes, adding carriage-control characters.