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The simplest solution is to create a "dumb" printer that saves the print file to a directory on the SCO system. This can be made flexible enough to allow different directories for different users/applications etc.
Implement either Samba, or Visionfs, depending upon which release of SCO that you have, and share the folder that contains the print files. The print files will then be available on a shared drive to the Windows software.
Depending upon how the cobol print files are created, there can be issues creating a PDF file from them.
If you have the source code for your cobol programs, I can provide support for those.
To create the printer:
Save the following script as /usr/spool/lp/model/file with owner bin, group lp perms 0550

Code:

:                                                          
#       @(#) file 25.2 95/03/27                            
#                                                          
#                                                          
# lp interface for print to file                           
#                                                          
                                                           
#Set up some global variables.                             
: ${SPOOLDIR:=/usr/spool/lp}                               
: ${LOCALPATH:=${SPOOLDIR}/bin}                            
                                                           
shift; shift; shift; shift; shift                          
files="$*"                                                 
for file in $files                                         
do                                                         
        cp ${file} /u/spool/`/bin/basename $file`                              
done                                                       
exit 0   
  ------end of script------                                                 
-bash-3.2# l file                                          
-r-xr-x---    1 bin      lp         267 Sep 19 11:25 file

Add a local printer
Select "file" as the model name
Select "/dev/null" as the device.
Create the directory /u/spool, or modify to suit.

Code:

cd /u
mkdir spool
chown root spool
chgrp group spool
chmod 0777 spool
chmod +t spool

This will give everyone read/write access to the directory, but only root will be able to remove the directory.

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lpshut

lpshut(1M)						  System Administration Commands						lpshut(1M)

NAME

       lpshut - stop the LP print service

SYNOPSIS

       lpshut

DESCRIPTION

       The  lpshut command stops the  LP print service.

       Printers that are printing when lpshut is invoked stop printing. Start or restart printers using lpsched(1M).

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	       Successful completion.

       non-zero        An error occurred.

FILES

       /var/spool/lp/*	       LP print queue.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       |Availability		     |SUNWpsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       lp(1), lpstat(1), lpadmin(1M), lpmove(1M), lpsched(1M), attributes( 5)

       System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

SunOS 5.10							    8 Jan 1998								lpshut(1M)