Infoprint Server for iSeries Introduction and Planning Guide Version 5, Release 2.
Infoprint Server for iSeries Introduction and Planning Guide Version 5, Release 2.
Note Before using this information and the product it supports, be sure to read the general information in “Notices” on page 27. Second Edition (August 2002) This edition applies to the IBM® Infoprint® Server for iSeries™ Version 5 Release 2 Modification 0 licensed program, Program Number 5722–IP1, and to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions or technical newsletters. Be sure to use the correct edition for the level of the product.
Contents Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v About Infoprint Server for iSeries: Introduction and (G544–5774) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Who Should Read This Book . . . . . . . . . . Prerequisite and Related information . . . . . . . iSeries Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii vii vii viii Summary of Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Bibliography . . Infoprint Server . . Advanced Function iSeries Access . . Infoprint Designer . OS/400. . . . . Printers. . . . . PrintSuite . . . . Redbooks . . . . TCP/IP . . . . . iv . . . . . . . . . . Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Figures 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. iSeries Printing without Infoprint Server . . . . . . . . . . iSeries Output Management with Infoprint Server . . . . . . Publishing iSeries Output Electronically . . . . . . . . . Electronic Report Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . Printing documents from a Workstation on IPDS printers . . . Transforming images into OS/400 resources. . . . . . . . Indexing line, mixed, or AFP data . . . . . . . . . . . .
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About Infoprint Server for iSeries: Introduction and Planning Guide (G544–5774) This publication provides an overview of Infoprint Server for iSeries Version 5 Release 2 (licensed program number 5722–IP1). The term ″iSeries″ refers to the system formerly called AS/400®. The term ″OS/400®″ refers to the operating system of the iSeries.
With every new hardware order, you receive the iSeries Setup and Operations CD-ROM, SK3T-4098-01. This CD-ROM contains IBM Eserver iSeries Access for Windows and the EZ-Setup wizard. iSeries Access offers a powerful set of client and server capabilities for connecting PCs to iSeries servers. The EZ-Setup wizard automates many of the iSeries setup tasks. The Printing Systems iSeries Products Web page contains information about this product. See this Web page: http://www.ibm.com/printers/R5PSC.
Summary of Changes Summary of Changes for Infoprint Server for iSeries: Introduction and Planning Guide, G544–5774–01 This publication contains additions and changes to information previously presented in Infoprint Server for iSeries: Introduction and Planning Guide, G544–5774–00, which supports Infoprint Server for iSeries Version 5 Release 1.0. The technical additions and changes are marked with a revision bar ( | ) in the left margin. These changes have been made throughout the book: v For OS/400 5.
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Chapter 1. What Infoprint Server Can Do for You | | | | | | Infoprint Server for iSeries (hereafter referred to as Infoprint Server) is a separately orderable program for OS/400 5.1 and higher. Infoprint Server focuses on the network, extending the considerable capabilities of the iSeries beyond printing to the management and dissemination of output.
form definitions. This separates page formatting from the line-of-business application. In addition, with Infoprint Designer for iSeries, you have a graphical design interface for these applications. Infoprint Server addresses the requirement to take print applications with page definition and form definition formatting and transform them into final-form AFP. This lets them be easily printed and viewed by ″downstream″ processes.
part of the AFP architecture and enable the pages to be formatted independently of the application program. Infoprint Designer for iSeries is a fully graphical output composition system that uses these resources to design new applications or re-engineer existing ones.
integrated and creates a native, text-based ASCII PDF data file when the input to the transform is non-image. This PDF file can then be routed to one of three places: an integrated file system directory, an output queue, or outbound by e-mail. In addition, you can use AFP Toolbox for AS/400, the Create AFP Data command, or DDS keywords to logically segment a print file. This logical segmentation carries forward to the PDF transform process.
Infoprint Designer OS/400 Applications Printer File AFP Transforms Output Queue OS/400 Print Management DDS PCL PS PDF Client Networking and iSeries ASCII Applications SCS Printer PDF Printer AFP Resources Overlays Fonts Page Segments Page Definitions (PSF only) Form Definitions (PSF only) Page Segment or Overlay WIN Create AFP Data Image Transform Host Print Transform PCL Printer PSF for OS/400 IPDS Printer PDF Subsystem PDF E-Mail Fully Resolved AFP Integrated File System Fully Res
number, for the mail tag. Now you can use the PDF mapping program to interpret mail tags, specify the subject text, and add a customized message to the beginning of each e-mail. If you use an SMTP mail server to send the e-mail, you can also specify a file to be used in the body of the e-mail, add carbon copy (cc) and blind carbon copy (bcc) recipients, specify an address for the recipient to reply to, and add attachments.
| | | document is physically divided, each file can be sent to a different e-mail address, retrieved, or printed individually, which replaces the need for a manual ″burst and bind″ process. Better Access to IPDS Printers In today’s network environments, workstation users are often limited to personal and LAN printers. Infoprint Server lets any user in the network send print jobs in a wide range of formats from OS/400 and LAN clients to IPDS printers attached to OS/400.
The PDF subsystem lets you use the indexing information to break a large file into smaller files, such as customer statements, then store, e-mail, or print the smaller files. | | | Print to PDF Printers When IPDS printers are not required, businesses need access to ASCII printers. Without Infoprint Server, OS/400 supports printing iSeries output on PCL printers. A new generation of printers, such as the IBM Infoprint 21, IBM Infoprint 45, and IBM Infoprint 70 support printing PDF directly.
Chapter 2. Using Infoprint Server This chapter describes how you can use Infoprint Server in your particular environment to meet your printing needs.
Publishing iSeries Output Electronically In this scenario, a company uses an iSeries to generate monthly reports. These reports are then distributed to the sales regions. Instead of sending out hardcopy versions of these reports, the company wants to make them available for Web access. Here is how this company can use the Infoprint Server components to meet its requirements: 1. An OS/400 application creates the data and puts it on the spool. 2.
Electronic Report Distribution In this scenario, a company wants to distribute its monthly sales reports to regional managers. Currently, the reports are generated on an OS/400, printed, manually separated, and sent to the managers. The goal is to electronically send the regional managers only the report for the area that they control. | | | | | | | Here is how this company can use the Infoprint Server components to meet its requirements: 1.
Printing Enterprise Print Output on IPDS Printers In this scenario, a business uses an enterprise resource planning software package to create and print its output in PCL format. They would like to direct their high volume print jobs to high-speed IPDS printers. Here is how this business can use the Infoprint Server components to meet its requirements: 1. From a Windows workstation, a user submits the document for printing on an IPDS printer using a printer shared though NetServer. 2.
Integrating Web and Network Images into iSeries Applications A manufacturer has a drawing application on Windows NT that creates engineering drawings in JPEG format. The manufacturer wants to be able to use the same drawing on a work order, but the work order is a line of business (LOB) document produced by the iSeries. | | | | | Here is how the manufacturer can use Infoprint Server components to meet its requirements: 1.
Indexing Data for Navigation A telephone company creates customer statements by using the external formatting capabilities on the iSeries (page definitions and form definitions) together with AFP; this is called mixed data. This company wants its customer service representatives to be able to view the statements in the same format that the customer receives them.
Distributing AFP Output Electronically A company creates complex documents that contain page segments, overlays, and bar codes. The documents are then printed and distributed to users within their network and external clients. This company wants to be able to distribute the documents electronically. However, the documents require those external resources to be available in order to print or view correctly. Here is how this company can use the Infoprint Server components to meet its requirements: 1.
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Chapter 3. Understanding the Infoprint Server Components This chapter describes the Infoprint Server components. It describes how each component works and lists some of the benefits obtained through the component. Figure 9 shows the Infoprint Server components and how they fit into your system. The Infoprint Server components are shaded. Workstation Workstation Windows Infoprint Server Image transforms: GIF, TIFF, and JPEG to AFP Applications (Lotus, Word...
Optionally, the PDF subsystem also works with group tags when they have been inserted into the data. You can use AFP Toolbox, the Create AFP Data (CRTAFPDTA) command, or DDS keywords to create group tags in the data. The PDF subsystem can process a file with group tags in one of two ways. It can convert the input data to one file with indexing tags at the group boundaries or break each group into a separate PDF file.
| | Note: Although the PDF subsystem interacts with PSF to send e-mail, you do not need a PSF licence to use the subsystem. | | | | | | | The PDF subsystem can add index tags to the PDF file or convert the input data to multiple PDF files where you have inserted group tags. You can insert group tags with AFP Toolbox for AS/400, the Create AFP Data (CRTAFPDTA) command, or DDS keywords. Then you can use the e-mail support to send each output file to an e-mail address.
transform and Transform Manager together determine the data stream and call the correct transform. Image print transform is already a part of your OS/400 system, but Transform Manager comes only with Infoprint Server for iSeries. Transform Manager specifies how many transform jobs to initialize upon startup and when a new transform job should be started. It also specifies how many transform jobs of each type can be active. In order to use the PCL, PDF, or PostScript to AFP transform, you need a 5.
| | | After Create AFP Data creates the output files, you can use them in these ways: v Send the merged file to another system for printing, storage, or viewing. v Use the AFP Workbench Viewer (a component of iSeries Access) or the AFP Viewer Plug-in to view the file. If the document references resources, view the merged file to guarantee resource availability. v Store the merged file in a document archival system, such as IBM OnDemand for iSeries or Content Manager Common Server.
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Chapter 4. Related Products Following are some of the IBM products you can use with Infoprint Server: v “Advanced Print Utility” v “AFP Font Collection” v “AFP Toolbox” v “AFP Utilities” on page 24 | | v “AFP Viewer Plug-in” on page 24 v “Infoprint Designer for iSeries” on page 24 v “iSeries Access” on page 24 | Advanced Print Utility | | | | | IBM Advanced Print Utility (APU) for iSeries (Program Number 5798-AF3) is a feature of AFP PrintSuite and Utilities for iSeries.
v Create tables of any complexity. v Draw circles, partial circles, ellipses, and partial ellipses. AFP Toolbox is available on OS/390®, z/OS™, AIX, and OS/400 platforms. For more information about AFP Toolbox, refer to this Web page: http://www.ibm.com/printers/R5PSC.NSF/Web/AFPToolHome. For more information about AFP PrintSuite and Utilities for iSeries, refer to this Web page: http://www.ibm.com/printers/R5PSC.NSF/Web/AFPPrintSuiteHome.
iSeries Access runs on Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows98, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 95. iSeries Navigator iSeries Navigator, a component of iSeries Access, is the graphical user interface for managing your iSeries servers. iSeries Navigator makes operation and administration of the server easier and more productive. For instance, you can copy a user onto another system by dragging the user from one server to the other.
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Glossary This glossary defines technical terms and abbreviations used in Infoprint Server documentation. If you do not find the term you are looking for, refer to the index of this publication or view IBM Dictionary of Computing,, located at: v Synonymous with. Appears in the commentary of a preferred term and identifies less desirable or less specific terms that have the same meaning. http://www.ibm.com/networking/nsg/nsgmain.
C elements being transmitted, or intended for transmission, in character or binary-digit form, using a defined format. carriage control character. An optional character in an input data record that specifies a write, space, or skip operation. cassette. In a cut-sheet printer, a movable enclosure for paper supply. See also bin. character. (1) A symbol used in printing. For example, a letter of the alphabet, a numeral, a punctuation mark, or any other symbol that represents information. (2) A byte of data.
euro. The monetary unity of the European Monetary Union (EMU), introduced alongside national currencies on the first of January, 1999. duplex printing, text suppression, the position of MO:DCA data on the form, and the number of copies and modifications of a page. EuroReady product.
indexing. In CRTAFPDTA, a process of matching reference points within a file and creating structured field tags within the MO:DCA document and the separate index object file. indexing with data values. Adding indexing tags to a MO:DCA document using data that is already in the document and that is consistently located in the same place in each group of pages. indexing with literal values.
MO:DCA data. Print data that has been composed into pages. Text-formatting programs such as DCF can produce composed text data consisting entirely of structured fields. point. A unit of measurement about 1/72 of an inch; used in measuring the height of a font. Contrast with pitch. point size. The height of a font in points. MO:DCA data page. A page of print data consisting entirely of structured fields. MO:DCA print data set. A print data set consisting entirely of structured fields. MO:DCA-P.
S1 F1 P1 O1 H1 Page segment Form definition Page definition Overlay Recommended for microfilm rotation. The number of degrees a graphic character is turned relative to the page coordinates. S segment. Synonym for page segment. sheet. A division of the physical medium on which data is presented. The IPDS architecture defines 4 types of sheet: cut-sheet forms, continuous forms, envelopes, and computer output on microfilm. Each sheet has a front side and a back side.
Bibliography This bibliography lists the titles of publications containing additional information about Infoprint Server for iSeries, the OS/400 operating system, Advanced Function Presentation, and related products. The titles and order numbers may change from time to time. To verify the current title or order number, consult your IBM marketing representative. You can obtain many of the publications listed in this bibliography from the Printing Systems Digital Library: http://www.ibm.com/printers/r5psc.
OS/400 Publication Order Number AS/400 Guide to Advanced Function Presentation and Print Services Facility S544-5319-03 AS/400 Command Language Reference SC41-3722 DDS Reference SC41-5712 Printer Device Programming SC41-5713-05 Software Installation SC41-5120-06 System API Programming SC41-5800-00 Publication Order Number IBM Printing Systems: Printer Summary S544-5749 IBM PagePrinter 3812 Introduction and Planning Guide G544-3265 IBM LaserPrinter 4028 Introduction and Planning Guide S5
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