IBM S544-5285-01 user manual

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IBM Print Services Facility IBM
AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility:
User’s Guide



S544-5285-01

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IBM Print Services Facility IBM AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility: User’s Guide S544-5285-01

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Note Before using this information and the product it supports, be sure to read the general information in “Notices” on page ix . | Second Edition (January 1999) | This edition applies to AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility, which is shipped with Print Services Facility 3.1.0 for OS/390 (program | number 5655-B17), Print Services Facility/MVS 2.2.0 (program number 5695-040), Print Services Facility/VM 2.1.1 (program number | 5684-141), Print Services Facility/VSE 2.2.1 (program number 56

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Contents Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Programming Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix | Summary Of Changes ................................. xi About This Publication ..........................

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Using a Parameter File with ASCII Input Data ................. 56 Specifying ACIF Processing Parameters for EBCDIC Input Data ........ 58 Using a Parameter File with EBCDIC Input Data ................ 58 Using the Shell with EBCDIC Literal Values ................... 61 Identifying the Locations of the Resources ..................... 61 Determining the Form Definition and the Page Definition ............. 62 Running the ACIF Job ................................. 62 ACIF Output . . . . . . .

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Index Record Exit ................................. 125 Output Record Exit ................................ 126 Resource Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 User Exit Search Order .............................. 130 Non-Zero Return Codes ............................. 130 Attributes of the Input Print File ........................... 130 Chapter 10. ACIF Messages for OS/390, MVS, VM, and VSE ....... 133 Multiple Message Scenarios ....................

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Composed Text Control (CTC) Structured Field ............... 200 Map Coded Font (MCF) Format 1 Structured Field .............. 200 Map Coded Font (MCF) Format 2 Structured Field .............. 200 Presentation Text Data Descriptor (PTD) Format 1 Structured Field .... 200 Inline Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Page Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Figures 1. How ACIF Fits into Advanced Function Presentation ............. 4 2. Using ACIF to Prepare Files for Viewing .................... 6 3. Using ACIF to Prepare Files for Distributed Printing ............. 7 4. Using ACIF to Prepare Files for Archiving and Retrieving .......... 8 5. AFP Document with Index Tags and the Index Object File ........ 11 6. Example Bank Statement Input File ...................... 12 7. ACIF Processing Parameters to Index the Bank Statement ........ 13 8.

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Notices References in this publication to products, programs, or services of IBM do not suggest or imply that IBM will make them available in all countries where IBM does business, or that only products, programs, or services of IBM may be used. Noninfringing equivalents may be substituted, but the user must verify that such substitutes, unless expressly designated by IBM, work correctly. No license, expressed or implied, to patents or copyrights of IBM is granted by furnishing this docum

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The following terms appear in this publication and are trademarks of other companies: Ÿ Adobe, ATM-1, and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. Ÿ Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft, Inc. Ÿ NFS is a trademark of SUN Microsystems, Inc. Ÿ UNIX is a trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. x ACIF User’s Guide

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Summary Of Changes | | This publication contains additions and changes to the previous edition, | S544-5285-00. The technical additions and changes are marked with a revision bar | to the left of the changes. | The following new function has been added: | Ÿ INSERTIMM=YES|NO (see APAR PN92597) | Ÿ FONTECH=UNBOUNDED (see APAR PN77365) | Ÿ MCF2REF={CPCS | CF } (see APAR PQ04391) | Ÿ PRMODE=SOSI3 (see APAR PQ07139) | Ÿ RESTYPE=...[,OBJCON][,BCOCA][,GOCA][,IOCA] (see APAR PQ02350) | The APARs ad

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| a Set Coded Font Local Text control. Each shift in character is converted to a | Set Coded Font Local Text control and two blanks. | New or changed messages include: | Ÿ APK246S (APAR PQ02350) | Ÿ APK247S (APAR PQ02350) | Ÿ APK248S (APAR PQ02350) | Ÿ APK252I (APAR PN77694) | Ÿ APK255S (APAR PQ09450) | Ÿ APK256S (APAR PQ09450) | Ÿ APK278S (APAR PQ02350) | Ÿ APK343I (APAR PQ07139) | Ÿ APK345I (APAR PQ07139) | Ÿ APK441S (APAR PN84835 and PN89280) | Ÿ APK443S (APAR PN92597 and PN91755) | Ÿ AP

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About This Publication This publication describes Advanced Function Presentation Conversion and Indexing Facility (ACIF), which allows you to format and print System/390 line data and unformatted ASCII files with IBM Print Services Facility in the following environments: Ÿ OS/390 Ÿ MVS Ÿ VM Ÿ VSE Ÿ AIX ACIF also provides indexing and resource retrieval capabilities that allow you to view, archive, and retrieve document files. ACIF is supported in the OS/390, AIX, MVS, VM, and VSE envir

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running on it. You may need to show these messages to your system programmer for assistance from time to time. How This Publication Is Organized This publication contains information pertaining to ACIF support for AIX, OS/390, MVS, VM, and VSE operating environments supported by PSF. However, because AIX users can invoke the PSF MSG command to view AIX messages on-line or print them, the AIX messages have not been duplicated in this publication. Ÿ Part one contains information common to AIX

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To order additional printed copies of this publication, use order number S544-5285 Note: Publications that are referred to in this book or that contain additional information about AFP, the OS/390 or MVS operating systems, PSF, and related products are listed in “Bibliography” on page 207. What Terms Are Used In This Publication? The following are terms this publication uses, plus a description of how those terms apply to your system: Document In all systems: Ÿ A file that contains AFP stru

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Related Information Publications that are referred to in this book or that contain additional information about Advanced Function Presentation (AFP), the MVS operating system, PSF, and related products are listed in the “Bibliography” on page 207. For additional information about OS/390 and PSF for OS/390, refer to these Web pages: http://www.ibm.com/s39ð/os39ð http://www.printers.ibm.com/pbin-id/go?/pdocs/psf39ð/home.html To obtain the latest documentation updates for OS/390 base element

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Notational Conventions This publication uses the following notational conventions: Ÿ Italics within a command represent variables for which you must supply a value. For example: cpgid=code page identifier means that you enter cpgid= as shown and then replace the variable code page identifier with a value that represents any valid code page, which is three-character decimal value (for example, 395) that defines an IBM-registered code page. Ÿ Do not enter the following symbols as part of the

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Examples PSF for AIX must be installed if you want to use examples documented in this publication that contain pathnames indicating PSF; for example: “inpexit=/usr/lpp/psf/bin/asciinpe” xviii ACIF User’s Guide