IBM 47AE - 410168 manual

Infoprint Server for iSeries V5 Session 47AE - 410168 Mira Shnier Senior IT Specialist, Printing Systems Division, IBM Canada Ltd. mshnier@ca.ibm.com SCS Archive Overlays Fonts Psegs Page & Form defs Output queue iSeries Output Architecture Web, network images PDF Subsystem Create AFP Data PF IFS OS/400 PSF/400 Printer file iSeries native appli[...]

E-business is chang ing the face of business communications T raditional infor mation methodolog y has been "print and distribute" Networks, Internet, and electronic documents are tra nsforming this methodolo gy Electr onic docum ents mean: T ie to pre-printed f orm is broken Flexibility in content Flexibility in delivery Networks and Int[...]

Focus of Infoprint Server Electron ic Distr ibuti on of outpu t iSeries man agement of networ k print iSeries support for PDF T ransform services for any iSeries standard output (AFP, IPDS, SCS, even OV/400) PDF output to e-mail, IFS, or PDF printer High-funct ion PDF Server Segmentation - "Electronic Burst and Bind" Integrated e-mail of [...]

1. Publish to the Web Scenario - monthly reports sent out to departments in hard copy Customer would prefer these went on the company Intranet (or Internet) Publish to the Web - solution 1. An OS/400 appli cation creat es the data and p uts it on the spool. 2. Use the IPDS to PDF conv ersion function to store the data in the iSeries IFS. 3. Access [...]

Archi ve Overlays Fonts Psegs Page & Form defs Output queue Architecture: PDF Web publishing PDF Device Description IFS OS/400 PSF/400 Printer file iSeries nati ve applications PDF Company Intranet PDF DDS PSF Configuration Object PDF subsystem setup Device Description: Virtual *IPDS/AFP printer on *LAN Loopback addres s (127.0.0.1) Unique Port[...]

Using iSeries Navigator to create a PSF Config. Object The same object can be build using the CRTPSFCFG or CHGPSFCFG commands. PDF transform enables: Re-engineering of output distribution Soft copy repositories for "demand pull" info rmation dissemination Printing directly to PDF-capable printers Integr ate with cu stom e-m ail applica ti[...]

T arget Directory and File Name If you specify a Root File Sys tem directory name, the file will be stored as: /PDF-directory-name/jo b-name/job-user-n ame+ /job-number_file-numbe r_spooled-file-na me_date_sequence-number. PDF In this example the t arget was specified as ' /reports' COMMON 410168 47AE Infoprint Server Denver.PRZ 13-14 10/[...]

T arget Directory and File Name If you specify a directory name in the QDLS System, the file will be stored as: /QDLS/folder- name/job-nam e/job-number/job- user-name/file -number+ /spooled-file -name/date/s equence-number.PD F In this example the target was specified as '/QDLS/EMAILS' More on T arget Stre am Files If you select "Gen[...]

iSeries Access for WEB PDF support Use 5722-XH2 iSeries Access for WEB - view PDF COMMON 410168 47AE Infoprint Server Denver.PRZ 17-18 10/11/02[...]

2. Electronic Report Distribution Scenario - month ly sales reports are printed, manually separated and mailed to reg ional office managers Customer would like to automatically distribute and send the relevant reports to specific managers 1. Use DDS keywords to in sert Group tags in *AFPDS spooled file. 2. Original spooled file conv erted to multip[...]

Architecture: E-mail Overlays Fonts Psegs Page & Form d efs Output queue PDF DEVD PSFCFG OS/400 PSF/400 Printer file iSeries nati ve applications DDS PDF e-mail Mapping Prog ram File: LOOKU P 513 701 842 513 shnier@ca.ibm. com 701 rose@us.i bm.com 842 shaffer@us.ibm. com shnier@ca.ibm.com shaffer@us.ibm.com rose@us.ibm. com STRPAGGRP('513&[...]

PSF/400 Data Queue PSF Configuration Object Print er File DDS USRDFNDTA (DDS) STRPAGGRP ENDPAGGRP PDFGEN PDFINCF NT PDFMUL T PDFDTAQ PDFSENDER PDFMAPPGM PDFDIR PDF File(s) User Exit Program E-mail Input Job Info Spooled File Mail T ag PDF File Path Sender User Data Output Message T ext E-mail Addresses Disposition E-mail with exit program if inform[...]

1 4 3 2 MSHNIER was the user on BL DASL1 who was the "SENDER" Subject line info comes fr om PQT4133 in message file QPQMSGF . you may "unofficially" modify the first 22 characters Up to 255 characters of text message may be customized using mapping program. (default message is, "Mail was sent by OS/400 process. Please do no[...]

Ad-hoc PDF - iSeries Access V5R2 New Operations Navigator options E-mail COMMON 410168 47AE Infoprint Server Denver.PRZ 27-28 10/11/02[...]

File size considerations By default PDF incl udes Adobe fonts Files may be large if many fonts used V5R1 - Use PSFDFNOPT wi th PDFINCFNT(*NO) in your PSFCFG (PTF si03186 requi red) V5R2 use PDFINCFNT(*NO) parameter File Description no. of pages size of PDF After PTF Short JOBLOG 2 58 KB Medium JOBLOG 19 94 KB Long JO BLOG 217 493 KB Single Invoice [...]

3. Print enterprise output on IPDS printers Customer uses an ER P output which generates data in PCL format They need the sp eed, power and thro ughput of their high-speed iSeries system printer - plus the IPDS error recovery Scenario: Print enterprise output on IPDS printers - solution 1. From a Windows workstat ion, a user submits the document fo[...]

Architecture: Print Serving Output queue OS/400 PSF/400 Printer file iSerie s nativ e applications IPDS Clie nt, n etwor k, an d iSeries ASC II applications PCL to AFP PS to AFP PDF to AFP DDS T ransforms are integrated into OS/400 architecture Provides generic iSeries print support for ERP applicatio ns Workstation access through LPD, NetServer IP[...]

PCL/PS/PDF to AFP setup T ransformations based on: PCL vs. (PostScript/PDF) edge-to-edge vs. 1/6" non-print border T ransformation configuration file specifies how many of each combination: minimum & maximum Printer device d esc ription includes AFP(*YES) IMGCFG(*IMGCnn), where nn is based on print density, edge-to-edge(y/n), image compres[...]

Integrate web and network images into iSeries applications - solution 1. The user sends the imag e file to the Windows-based JPEG transform to create an AFP image file. 2. Next, the user coul d use the AFP Manager component of Operations Na vigator to create the page segment and store it in the iSeries. Alternatively, the user could use a network d[...]

Architecture: Web image Overla ys Fonts Psegs Page & Form defs Web, network images OS/400 PSF/400 GIF to AFP JPEG to AFP TIFF to AFP 5. Indexed data for fast navigation Scenario - A phone company creates custom er statements using the external formatting capabilities on th e iSeries (page defini tions and f orm definitions ) together w ith AFP.[...]

Indexed data for fast navigation - solution 1. An application creates the data and puts it on the OS/400 spool. 2. The CRT AFPDT A command generates the document as an AFP stream file , p uts the indexing information in an index object stream file , gathers all of the needed resources into a resource stream file , then concatenates them into a merg[...]

CRT AFPDT A and CVTLINDT A similarities Convert *LINE data to *AFPDS (MO:DCA) Use with AFP Viewer Print to non-IPDS printers us ing HPT Processes the "rules" from Page Definition to create resolved output Page Definition *LINE *AFPDS CRT AFPDT A vs. CVTLINDT A differences CRTAFPDTA CVTLINDTA Command with many parameters Printer file param[...]

What else would you use if for? Create an index document AFP Viewer - quick a ccess to selected pages PDF generation - in dex to segment la rge file and add addressing information fo r e-mail or generate PDF bookmarks Archive & Re trieve selected gr oups of pages Create a resource group Portable AFP Other iSeries or other platforms Fidelity for[...]

Application Infoprint Serv er Component Publish iSeries-AS/400 ou tput PDF transfor m (alterna tive is Cre ate AFP Data - CRTAFPDTA) Electronic re port distribut ion PDF transfor m, integra ted e-ma il Print directly to PDF printers PDF transf orm (output to queue ) Electronic burst and b ind PDF transfor m, segme ntation su pport ERP print driver [...]

SCS Archive Overlays Fonts Psegs Page & Form defs Output queue Infoprint Server Architecture Web, network images PDF Subsystem Create AFP Data PF IFS OS/400 PSF/400 Printer file iSeries native application s E-mail PDF Web PRTAFPDT A GIF to AFP JPEG to AFP TIFF to AFP PDF PCL IPDS Infoprin t Design er Client, network, and iSeries AS CII applicat[...]

Other Print and E-outp ut Sessions Session T itle Session Number ID Day/Time V5 Printing and E-output Ove rview 409061 42AE Wed @ 9:30AM iSeries Output Flow and Architecture 250343 43AE Wed @ 11:0 0AM iSeries Output Application Develo pment 410162 45AE Wed @ 2:00PM Infoprint Designer for iSeries 404243 46AE Wed @ 3:30PM Infoprint Server fo r iSerie[...]

AFP - Advanced Functi on Presentation AFCCU - Advanced Function Common Control Unit AFPDS - Advanced Function Printi ng Data Stream API - Applica tion Program Int erface ASCII - American National Standard Code for Information Exchange BGU - Business Graphic s Utility BMP - OS/2 and Wind ows Bitmap BRMS - Backup Re covery Manage ment System COR - Co[...]