Understanding SAP access method L support

If you either cannot or choose not to use SAP Output Management System (OMS) support, we recommend using SAP's local access method L (InfoPrint Manager's ipm_print command) to send jobs to the InfoPrint Manager server. InfoPrint Manager provides a command-line client interface for SAP to submit jobs to InfoPrint Manager with job attribute information and to query for jobs to determine when they have completed.

The InfoPrint Manager ipm_print command provides SAP job information to InfoPrint Manager. For example, each SAP userid can be used to track a job through the system. The corresponding ipm_query command allows InfoPrint Manager to provide job status to SAP. A job is not identified as complete until it actually prints or is deleted from the print queue.

For an alternative method of submitting jobs from non-AIX SAP R/3 or non-Linux SAP R/3 application servers that provide no feedback to the SAP servers, see Alternate access methods for submitting SAP jobs to InfoPrint Manager.

To use the InfoPrint Manager SAP Transform, you must install the SAP Print Feature and fonts on every InfoPrint Manager server with actual destinations that transforms either SAP OTF or ABAP data. For information on installing the SAP Print Feature and fonts on the InfoPrint Manager server, see Installing the SAP Print Feature on the InfoPrint Manager server.

Depending on the platform that your SAP system runs on, see the appropriate chapter from the list below to install and then see Configuring your SAP system to use the InfoPrint Manager Client command to configure your SAP system to use InfoPrint Manager's SAP access method L client:

• For installing InfoPrint Manager's client when SAP runs on HP-UX or Sun Solaris servers, see Installing InfoPrint SAP Client support when SAP runs on HP-UX or Sun Solaris.
• For installing InfoPrint Manager's client when SAP runs on AIX servers, see Installing the SAP Client when SAP runs on AIX.
• For installing InfoPrint Manager's client when SAP runs on Linux servers, see Installing the SAP Client when SAP runs on Linux.
• For installing InfoPrint Manager's client when SAP runs on Windows systems, see Installing the SAP Client when SAP runs on Windows.

When you have installed the InfoPrint Manager's client for the appropriate operating system, see Configuring your SAP system to use the InfoPrint Manager Client command to configure your SAP system to use the InfoPrint Manager command.

You can also use access method L to send faxes from your SAP system to InfoPrint Manager.