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4 Note Before using this information and the product it supports, be sure to read the information in Notices on page 361. Sixth Edition (May 2004) This edition applies to OS/400 Version 5 Release 3 Modification 0, 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 leel of the system. Order publications through your IBM representatie or the IBM branch office sering your locality. Publications are not stocked at the address gien below. The IBM Printing Systems Diision welcomes your comments. A form for reader s comments is proided at the back of this publication. If the form has been remoed, you may send your comments to the following address: INFORMATION DEVELOPMENT THE IBM PRINTING SYSTEMS DIVISION DEPARTMENT H7FE BUILDING 004M PO BOX 1900 BOULDER CO U.S.A. If you prefer to send comments electronically, use one of the following methods: Internet: printpub@us.ibm.com Fax: or Internet Visit our home pages at and Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 1996, All rights resered. US Goernment Users Restricted Rights Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp.

5 Contents Figures ix Tables xiii About iseries Guide to Adanced Function Presentation (S )... x Who Should Read This Book xi Conentions and Terminology Used in This Book xi Prerequisite and Related Information xii How to Send Your Comments xii Summary of Changes xix Part 1. Introduction to Adanced Function Presentation Chapter 1. iseries Output Re-engineering Business Documents? iseries Output Architecture Page Architecture Printer Files and DDS AFP Page Resources Continued Printing E-business output Chapter 2. What is Adanced Function Presentation (AFP)? AFP Data Streams Elements of AFP Output PSF for OS/ Print Flow with PSF Printers and PSF When PSF Is Required Chapter 3. AFP Applications Enabling Applications Complementary Applications Chapter 4. Introduction to Printer Files Printer File Flow Printer File Parameters Using Printer Files to Enhance Your Output Specifying Line and Font Changes Specifying Multi-Up Printing Specifying Computer Output Reduction Adding Oerlays Conerting Line Data to AFP Specifying Finishing Operations Chapter 5. Introduction to PSF Configuration Objects Creating and Changing PSF Configuration Objects Creating a PSF Configuration Object for the PDF Subsystem Using a PSF Configuration Object Chapter 6. Introduction to AFP Resources Fonts Copyright IBM Corp. 1996, 2004 iii

6 What is a Font? Font Architecture Where Fonts are Stored How to Find Fonts on Your iseries How PSF Finds an AFP Font Where to Get Fonts Images and Graphics Images and Graphics in AFP Output Image and Graphic Terminology Image File Formats Image Compression Oerlays Why Use an Oerlay? Options for Building Oerlays Bar Codes Bar Code Terminology Bar Code Basics Bar Code Symbologies Page Definitions and Form Definitions Page Definitions Form Definitions How Page Definitions and Form Definitions are Used Sources of Page Definitions and Form Definitions Object Containers Chapter 7. Working with Fonts Create a Document with Seeral Fonts Example Printing a Font Catalog Using Outline Fonts Working with Font Mapping Tables Capturing Fonts Anamorphic Font Character Scaling Steps to Restore Font Libraries From the Font Collection CD to the iseries 84 Chapter 8. Working with Images Building Images Scanning the Source Image Touching up the Image Conerting Images to IOCA Uploading and Compiling the Image Including Images in your OS/400 Output Chapter 9. Working with Oerlays Oerlay Design Considerations Performance Considerations Fonts Images Object Size Designing Oerlays Using Infoprint Designer Designing Oerlays Using DDS Creating Oerlays from Existing Images Using Oerlays with OS/400 Output Chapter 10. Working with Bar Codes Making a Bar Code Decision i iseries Guide to Output

7 Which Symbology? What Density? What Height? What Orientation? What Print Volume? What Print Window? Specifying Bar Codes with PPFA Specifying Bar Codes with DDS Specifying Bar Codes in Infoprint Designer Specifying Bar Codes in Print Format Utility Specifying Bar Codes in APU Chapter 11. Working with Object Containers Part 2. Super Sun Seeds Case Study Chapter 12. Introduction to the Super Sun Seeds Case Study INVPRE Application Program Example INVPRE Application Program General Processing Flow DDS Source for INVPRE Example Choosing the Proper Tool Chapter 13. Using Printer Files Additional Considerations Chapter 14. Using Data Description Specifications Printer File DDS Keywords for AFP Applications DDS Functions DDS Example RPG for Example Floating Document Elements Positioning Using DDS for Super Sun Seeds DDS for New Inoice Output RPG Source for New Inoice Output (INVNEW1) Beginning the Inoice Processing Items Oerflow Items (ITMCNT = 35) Ending the Inoice (No Room for Offer) Ending the Inoice Enhancing the Super Sun Seeds Inoice Chapter 15. Using Adanced Print Utility What You Can Do with APU Why Use APU? Data Mapping and Field Selection APU Data Structure Example of a Single-Page Format Document Super Sun Seeds Case Study Expanded Case Study with APU Printing with APU Manually Associating a Print Definition with a Spooled File Using the Apply Print Definition Command Automatic Printing with APU Monitor Understanding How the APU Monitor Works Contents

8 An Example of APU Monitor Processing Chapter 16. Using Page Printer Formatting Aid Creating Page Definitions and Form Definitions with the PPFA Compiler Creating a Page Definition Using the PPFA Compiler Creating a Form Definition using the PPFA Compiler Using Page Definitions and Form Definitions to Format OS/400 Output Super Sun Seeds Case Study Record Format and PPFA Using the Record Formatting Functions Defining Color Drawing Graphics Creating Variable-Length Graphics Chapter 17. Using Infoprint Designer Oeriew What You Can Do with Infoprint Designer Oerlay Editor Image Editor Layout Editor Super Sun Seeds Case Study Chapter 18. Using IBM AFP Toolbox What Can I Do with AFP Toolbox? AFP Toolbox Document and Page Structure Super Sun Seeds Case Study Chapter 19. Using the Print Format Utility Introduction to PFU Super Sun Seeds Packing List Labels Summary Part 3. Working with AFP Output Chapter 20. Viewing Files Benefits of Viewing Your Output iseries Access Viewer Details AFP External Resources Oerlays and Page Segments Fonts Viewing Spooled Files with iseries Access Viewing OS/400 Stream Files with iseries Access Viewing Spooled Files with iseries Access for Web Viewing AFP Files with the AFP Viewer Plug-In Calling the AFP Viewer Directly from Your Application Chapter 21. Sending Your OS/400 Output by Fax Super Sun Seeds Case Study Chapter 22. Working with Infoprint Serer How Can I Use Infoprint Serer? Publish Output for Electronic Access Electronic Report Distribution Using Segmentation E-Business Customer Documents Segmenting Customer Documents Consolidating Enterprise Printing i iseries Guide to Output

9 Deliering Documents and Reports oer Intranet Creating Electronic Documents Interactiely Integrating Web Images Transforming Your OS/400 Output to PDF Accessing the PDF Subsystem Intelligent Routing Support Indexing Output with the Create AFP Data Command Transforming ASCII Image Data to AFP Printing PCL, PDF, and PostScript Data on IPDS Printers Chapter 23. Working with Your iseries from a Windows Client iseries Access iseries Naigator iseries Access for Web Using iseries Access for Web to Conert and View a Spooled File in PDF 264 Using iseries Access Installing AFP Manager Conerting a Spooled File to PDF for ing, Spooling, or Storing Creating a PSF Configuration Object Changing a PSF Configuration Object Importing Resources to the OS/ Creating a Printer Share Chapter 24. Indexing, Archiing, and Retrieing Output with Content Manager OnDemand for iseries Super Sun Seeds Case Study Defining the Inoices to CM OnDemand Retrieing the Archied Inoices from CM OnDemand Chapter 25. Deciding on an Output Strategy and Set of Tools Part 4. Appendixes Appendix A. iseries Font Libraries Appendix B. Additional DDS Examples INVNEW2 Enhanced Super Sun Seeds Inoicing INVNEW2 RPG Source INVNEW2 DDS Source INVNEW3 Floating Super Sun Seeds Inoicing INVNEW3 RPG Source INVNEW3 DDS Source Appendix C. Source Code and Line Data for Super Sun Seeds Page Definition Source Code Form Definition Source Code Sample Line Data Appendix D. Sample Toolbox Source Code Sample COBOL Program using AFP Toolbox Description of COBOL Program Listing Sample RPG Program using AFP Toolbox Appendix E. Migrating from OfficeVision/ Contents ii

10 Appendix F. Performing Adanced Font Tasks with iseries Naigator 349 Viewing and Changing Font Mapping Tables Creating a Font Mapping Table Actiating Font Capture Appendix G. Finding OS/400 Objects in the Integrated File System Introducing the Integrated File System Finding an Object in the Integrated File System Moing Data between File Systems How PSF Searches for Resources How PSF Searches for Object Containers Specifying Resource Library Lists Using AFP Manager to Specify Resource Library Lists Notices Programming Interface Information Trademarks Glossary Bibliography Adanced Function Presentation Business Graphics Utility Data Stream and Object Architectures Facsimile Support for iseries GDDM Fonts IBM AFP PrintSuite for iseries IBM Content Manager OnDemand for iseries Infoprint Designer for iseries Infoprint Serer for iseries OS/ Redbooks Index iii iseries Guide to Output

11 Figures 1. iseries Print Flow AFP Page Architecture Sample of AFP Output Using PSF PSF Print Flow Oerride with Printer File (OVRPRTF) Command Change Spooled File Attributes (CHGSPLFA) Command Oerride with Printer File Display - First Screen Oerride with Printer File Display - Second Screen Oerride with Printer File Display - Third Screen Multi-Up Printing: Example of 2-up and 4-up Printing Oerride with Printer File Display - Pages Per Side Example of COR Function Oerride with Printer File Display - Reduce Output Greenbar Oerlay Oerride with Printer File Display - Oerlay Parameters Oerride with Printer File Display - Conert Line Data Oerride with Printer File Display - Finishing Parameters Create PSF Configuration Screen Fonts on a Sample Page Raster Font Characters with Different Resolutions Translation of a Keyboard Character into a Printed Character How Code Pages Work Image and Graphic on the Sample Page Oerlay on the Sample Page Bar Codes on the Sample Page Linear Bar Code Elements UPC Bar Code Example Postnet Bar Code Example PDF417 Bar Code Example Traditional Printing Compared to Printing with Page Definitions and Form Definitions How a Page Definition is Used Page Definition Functions How a Form Definition is Used Form Definition Functions Document with Seeral Fonts DDS Keywords Used to Create Sample Document Image Editor Super Sun Seeds Logo Scanned into the Infoprint Designer Image Editor Zooming in on the Super Sun Seeds Logo Image Terms and Conditions Oerlay Created in a Windows Application Bar Codes Printed on an IPDS Printer The Bar Code Tool Button Defining the Bar Code Specifying the Bar Code Properties Change Bar Code Detail Display Change Bar Code Detail Display Defining a Bar Code in APU Defining a Bar Code in APU Super Sun Seeds Preprinted Inoice Create Printer File - Adding an Oerlay Externally Described Printer File with DDS DDS Functionality Super Sun Seeds Inoice as Floating Document Copyright IBM Corp. 1996, 2004 ix

12 54. Grid Oerlay New One Page DDS Version of Super Sun Seeds Inoice Page One of Two-Page DDS Version of Super Sun Seeds Inoice Page Two of Two-Page DDS Version of Super Sun Seeds Inoice Electronic Oerlays on New DDS Super Sun Seeds Inoice Customer Copy - INVNEW Super Sun Seeds Packing List Typical APU Application APU Print Flow APU Data Structure APU Step by Step Super Sun Seeds Inoice APU Main Display Work with Print Definitions Display Print Definition Attributes (First Display) Print Definition Attributes (Second Display) Work with Print Definitions Display Work with Copies Display Define a Copy Display Select a Sample Spooled File Display Set Page Layout Options Display Back Oerlay (Terms and Conditions) - INVBAC Define Field Mapping Display Define Field Mapping Display Map Bar Code Display Define Constants Display Create Constant Text Display Select a Font Display Create Constant Text Display Define Constants Display Define Oerlays Display Sample INVALL Oerlay Work with Copies Display Work with Copies Display Define Price Suppression for Packing List Define Price Suppression for Packing List Specifying Field and Rules Selection Defining Selection Fields Selection Field Pop-up Selection Field Naming Define Selection Rules for Page Define Selection Rules for All Other Pages Summary of Selection Rules Select a Spooled File Panel Apply Print Definition Panel Apply Print Definition Panel Apply Print Definition Panel APU Monitor Processing Sequence APU Monitor Before Processing APU Monitor - Action Example APU Monitor Example After Processing Creating Page Definitions and Form Definitions Using PPFA Conert PPFA Source Display Create Page Definition (CRTPAGDFN) Display Page Definition Source Code Conert PPFA Source (CVTPPFASRC) Display x iseries Guide to Output

13 110. Create Form Definition (CRTFORMDF) Display Form Definition Source Code Formatted Output - Customer Formatted Output - Customer Three Copies of a Single-Page Customer Inoice Three Copies of a Two-Page Customer Inoice Variable-Length Boxes Infoprint Designer Application Flow Oerlay Editor Super Sun Seeds Logo Scanned into the Image Editor Layout Editor Window The SCS File to be Formatted Super Sun Seeds Inoice New Project Box Properties Dialog - Rounding Page Select Font Dialog Selecting the Spooled File Layout Properties Dialog Spooled File Displayed in the Data Window Positioning Text in the View/Edit Window Bar Code Options Dialog Finished Oerlay with Data Upload to AS/400 Dialog, AS/400 Connection Page Oerride with Printer File - First Screen Oerride with Printer File - Specifying the Page Definition and Form Definition AFP Toolbox Document and Page Structure Packing List Label Printout AFP Utilities Main Menu Work with PFD Definitions Display Change PFD Definition Display Specify Database File Display Design Record Layout Display Change Text Detail Display Design Record Layout Display Design Page Layout Display Change Record Layout Detail Display Viewing OS/400 Output Using iseries Access The iseries Access Window iseries Naigator Window Spooled File Displayed File Displayed in Acrobat Reader Outbound Fax Commands Work with Fax Output Queue (WRKFAXQ) Work with Fax Output Queue Send Fax Display Send Fax Display (continued) Sample Fax Oerlay (SSSFAX) Work with Fax Output Queue Display Spooled File Publishing iseries Output for Electronic Access Electronic Report Distribution with Segmentation E-Business Customer Documents Segmenting Customer Documents Consolidating Enterprise Printing Deliering Documents and Reports oer Intranet Creating Electronic Documents Interactiely Figures xi

14 166. Integrating Web Images Transforming a Spooled File to PDF How the Infoprint Serer Create AFP Data Command Works iseries Access Components iseries Naigator Window AFP Manager iseries Access for Web Home Page iseries Access for Web Home Page PDF Output Settings Page File Displayed in Acrobat Reader Personal Folder Page Settings for Mail an Attachment Option iseries Naigator Window Install Additional Components Selectie Setup Window Component Selection Window Selecting a Spooled File to Conert to PDF Conert Printer Output to PDF Window New PSF Configuration Window Configure PSF Configuration Window Import Page Segment Window iseries Access Components iseries NetSerer Print Share Dialog Starting the CM OnDemand Report Wizard Adding a Trigger Defining an Index Field List of Folders The Search Window List of Inoices that Meet Search Criteria Viewing an Inoice INVNEW2 Sample Inoice INVNEW3 Sample Inoice Inoice Heading Oerlay for Page Super Sun Seeds Case Study Created with AFP Toolbox Open Font Mapping Table Window New Font Mapping Table Window Import Code Page Window Enabling Font Capture iseries Naigator File Systems How PSF Searches for Resources xii iseries Guide to Output

15 Tables 1. AFP Page Elements and Respectie Sub-architecture OS/400 Printer Writers Printer File Parameters that Require PSF DDS Keywords that Require PSF Code Point Translations Commonly Used Font Collection Font Libraries IBM Infoprint 2085 Fonts (Partial List) DBCS Font Families Aailable Font Products Simulated by DBCS Simulation Fonts Transformers, Utilities, and Tools Image and Graphic Terminology Commonly Used Image File Formats Bar Code Terminology DDS Keywords for AFP Applications Recommended Approaches by Task Comparing iseries Formatting Approaches Best Application of Each Tool Copyright IBM Corp. 1996, 2004 xiii

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17 About iseries Guide to Adanced Function Presentation (S ) This guide is based on the standard iseries course on printing. It is designed to be used as an educational guide as opposed to a reference book. The guide is diided into three parts: Part I introduces you to the iseries output architecture. This includes how documents are composed and stored on iseries as well as how they are printed or deliered electronically. Part I breaks down the iseries document into logical components - fonts, oerlays, images, and barcodes, describing each in detail. Part II looks at the techniques and applications used to create documents on the iseries. One typical document application, an inoice, is used as a case study. In this part, we examine how each technique or application would be applied to create the inoice. Part III turns our attention to document deliery. Once our inoice has been generated and is sitting in an iseries output queue, what options are aailable to delier the document to the consumer of that document? Part 1, Introduction to Adanced Function Presentation, on page 1 includes these chapters: Chapter 1, iseries Output, on page 3 Chapter 2, What is Adanced Function Presentation (AFP)?, on page 11 Chapter 3, AFP Applications, on page 19 Chapter 4, Introduction to Printer Files, on page 25 Chapter 5, Introduction to PSF Configuration Objects, on page 39 Chapter 6, Introduction to AFP Resources, on page 41 Chapter 7, Working with Fonts, on page 79 Chapter 8, Working with Images, on page 87 Chapter 9, Working with Oerlays, on page 95 Chapter 10, Working with Bar Codes, on page 101 Part 2, Super Sun Seeds Case Study, on page 111 contains these chapters: Chapter 12, Introduction to the Super Sun Seeds Case Study, on page 113 Chapter 13, Using Printer Files, on page 121 Chapter 14, Using Data Description Specifications, on page 125 Chapter 17, Using Infoprint Designer, on page 197 Chapter 15, Using Adanced Print Utility, on page 153 Chapter 16, Using Page Printer Formatting Aid, on page 183 Chapter 18, Using IBM AFP Toolbox, on page 217 Chapter 19, Using the Print Format Utility, on page 223 Part 3, Working with AFP Output, on page 231 includes these chapters: Chapter 20, Viewing Files, on page 233 Chapter 21, Sending Your OS/400 Output by Fax, on page 241 Chapter 22, Working with Infoprint Serer, on page 245 Chapter 23, Working with Your iseries from a Windows Client, on page 261 Copyright IBM Corp. 1996, 2004 x

18 Chapter 24, Indexing, Archiing, and Retrieing Output with Content Manager OnDemand for iseries, on page 279 Chapter 25, Deciding on an Output Strategy and Set of Tools, on page 287 The book also contains these appendices: Appendix A, iseries Font Libraries, on page 293 Appendix B, Additional DDS Examples, on page 297 Appendix C, Source Code and Line Data for Super Sun Seeds, on page 317 Appendix D, Sample Toolbox Source Code, on page 331 Appendix E, Migrating from OfficeVision/400, on page 347 Appendix F, Performing Adanced Font Tasks with iseries Naigator, on page 349 How PSF Searches for Resources on page 357 Other sections are: Glossary Bibliography on page 375 Who Should Read This Book The information in this publication is directed at people in applications and operational functions that want to learn how to use iseries tools to create and distribute electronic documents. This publication is written with the assumption that you hae experience with application programming. It is also assumed that you are familiar with the system and using it to print. Conentions and Terminology Used in This Book In this manual, the term AFP Viewer refers to both the AFP Workbench Viewer, aailable with iseries Access, and the AFP Viewer Plug-in, aailable as a free download from IBM. In this publication, the term iseries Access refers to both Client Access and iseries Access. The term printer refers to both physical and irtual printers. Virtual printers hae no hardware and return electronic output instead of paper output. For example, to transform certain types of data you send the spooled file to a irtual printer. To the OS/400, the transform looks like a printer. Print Serices Facility for OS/400 is referred to as PSF throughout this publication. These rules apply to OS/400 command syntax throughout this publication: Variable data is printed in italics. Enter specific data to replace the characters in italics. For example, for indexing-page-limit you could enter 50. Italics also identify the names of publications. Commands are printed in all upper case letters. They must be entered exactly as they appear. Values are enclosed in parenthesis, for example, (file). Enter the parenthesis as part of the parameter. Monospacing, for example, this is monospaced, is used for examples and Web addresses. xi iseries Guide to Output

19 Prerequisite and Related Information Use the iseries Information Center as your starting point for looking up iseries technical information. You can access the Information Center two ways: From the following Web site: From the iseries Information Center, SK3T CD-ROM. This CD-ROM ships with your new iseries hardware or IBM Operating System/400 software upgrade order. You can also order the CD-ROM from the IBM Publications Center: The iseries Information Center contains new and updated iseries information such as software and hardware installation, Linux, WebSphere, Jaa, high aailability, database, logical partitions, CL commands, and system application programming interfaces (APIs). In addition, it proides adisors and finders to assist in planning, troubleshooting, and configuring your iseries hardware and software. How to Send Your Comments With eery new hardware order, you receie the iseries Setup and Operations CD-ROM, SK3T This CD-ROM contains IBM Eserer iseries Access for Windows and the EZ-Setup wizard. iseries Access Family offers a powerful set of client and serer capabilities for connecting PCs to iseries serers. The EZ-Setup wizard automates many of the iseries setup tasks. For other related information, see the Bibliography on page 375. Your feedback is important in helping to proide the most accurate and high-quality information. If you hae any comments about this book or any other iseries documentation, fill out the readers comment form at the back of this book. If you prefer to send comments by mail, use the readers comment form with the address that is printed on the back. If you are mailing a readers comment form from a country other than the United States, you can gie the form to the local IBM branch office or IBM representatie for postage-paid mailing. If the form has been remoed, you can send comments to this address: INFORMATION DEVELOPMENT THE IBM PRINTING SYSTEMS DIVISION DEPARTMENT H7FE BUILDING 004M PO BOX 1900 BOULDER CO U.S.A. If you prefer to send comments by FAX, use either of the following numbers: United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico: Other countries: If you prefer to send comments electronically, use one of these addresses: Comments about books: printpub@us.ibm.com Comments about the iseries Information Center: RCHINFOC@us.ibm.com About iseries Guide to Adanced Function Presentation (S ) xii

20 Be sure to include this information: The name of the book or iseries Information Center topic. The publication number of a book. The page number or topic of a book to which your comment applies. When you send information to IBM, you grant IBM a nonexclusie right to use or distribute the information in any way it beliees appropriate without incurring any obligation to you. xiii iseries Guide to Output

21 Summary of Changes Summary of Changes for iseries Guide to Output, S This publication contains additions and changes to information that was preiously presented in iseries Guide to Output, S , which supports OS/400 Version 5 Release 2. The technical additions and changes are marked with a reision bar ( ) in the left margin. These general changes hae been made throughout the book: OS/400 V5R1 is no longer supported. References to it hae been remoed. The PCL, PostScript, and PDF to AFP Infoprint Serer transforms are now a priced feature. OnDemand for iseries is now called Content Manager OnDemand for iseries. The following information is new or updated: Infoprint Fonts for Multiplatforms is described in Enabling Applications on page 19. A description of some third party design tools has been added to Complementary Applications on page 21. Chapter 5, Introduction to PSF Configuration Objects, on page 39 has been updated to incorporate changes to the PSF configuration object. Fonts on page 41 has been reorganized and expanded. Object Containers on page 78 has been added. Create a Document with Seeral Fonts on page 79 has been added. It gies an example of how to specify seeral different fonts using DDS. Chapter 11, Working with Object Containers, on page 109 describes how to include object containers in your data. Chapter 22, Working with Infoprint Serer, on page 245 has been updated to include information about intelligent routing. Intelligent Routing on page 256 has been added to describe new Infoprint Serer functionality. New terms hae been added to the Glossary. Copyright IBM Corp. 1996, 2004 xix

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23 Part 1. Introduction to Adanced Function Presentation Part I introduces you to the iseries output architecture. The iseries output architecture is for composing and storing documents as well as printing or deliering the information electronically. Part I breaks down the iseries document into logical components - fonts, oerlays, images, and bar codes, describing element in detail. Copyright IBM Corp. 1996,

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25 Chapter 1. iseries Output iseries output is the subject of this guide, with the focus on the options aailable to generate the kinds of documents required to compete in today s business enironment. This is an enironment where traditional standards of document content and document deliery might not be adequate. Some changes to document content, such as bar coding, hae moed printed pages into the oerall business process workflow. The Internet and intranets hae drien e-business process reengineering where hardcopy printed pages may no longer suffice. These changes generally make an electronic document essential to most business applications and electronic deliery critical to many. Re-engineering Business Documents? In all likelihood, you hae turned to this book to learn how new business documents could be deeloped or existing documents re-engineered in order to meet one or more new requirements within your organization. Those requirements might include: Migrating preprinted forms: The costs of preprinted forms, including material costs and operational inefficiencies, has become too high. Requirements from customers or suppliers: A ery common example is the need to generate bar codes on documents. Related to the trend aboe, iseries customers might be forced to upgrade print applications as a result of customer or supplier relationships. As an example, all suppliers to major retailers such as Wal-Mart must produce shipping documents, including bar codes, that conform to a supplier standard. These are hard standards that a endor or supplier must implement to continue doing business. There are many additional soft standards where a company has strong incenties to implement application changes. These include the use of Maxicode bar code for shipping labels (drien by UPS), postal bar codes, and PDF417 bar code a high-capacity barcode used by more and more public agencies. Document effectieness: Your current statements are identical in form and content for all of your customers but you want to use information about indiidual customers to tailor their statement dynamically. This trend is accelerated with data warehouses and BI (Business Intelligence) tools that enable communications to customers to be much more customized. Document design changes: Your documents change on a frequent basis and the current tools to make design changes cannot respond. Document processes: Once documents and reports are fully electronic, the information flow that they represent can be re-engineered. For example, instead of printing sales reports each month, the reports can be produced electronically and organized within an archie, such as IBM Content Manager OnDemand for iseries (OnDemand), for retrieal as required. Documents such as inoices, policies, or statements can be similarly stored for access by Customer Serice (CRM) applications. Competitie adantage or disadantage: Your competitors are far ahead in document content, effectieness, and process, which is starting to affect sales. Internet application reengineering: You are transforming key business processes for the Web and your documents need to be fully electronic to support that. Electronic deliery: You are looking at the possibilities of Infoprint Serer for iseries: PDF and , electronic deliery of documents and reports and again, you need fully electronic documents to take adantage of these capabilities. Copyright IBM Corp. 1996,

26 iseries Output Architecture IT Costs: The current system of changing design requires programming changes, escalating costs for what should be simple changes, requiring unacceptable delays, and causing disruption in stable application code. A good place to start is with a short primer about the iseries output architecture. Figure 1 shows a conceptualized iew of the output flow. Infoprint Designer Output Applications Postscript, PCL, PDF to AFP Transforms iseries Output Architecture Image Transforms AFP Resources Oerlays Fonts Page Segments Page Definitions (PSF only) Form Definitions (PSF only) Output Queue OS/400 Print Management Host Print Transform SCS Printer PDF Printer PCL Printer Create AFP Data AFP to Web and Segmentation Indexing PDF AFP Intelligent Routing and PDF Subsystem PSF for OS/400 PDF Web Print Other IPDS Printer PDF Mapping Object PDF Mapping Program -or- User Exit Program Figure 1. iseries Print Flow In this framework, iseries applications produce output such as documents and reports by working through a printer file and optionally, Data Description Specifications (DDS). The generated print files, called spooled files, are written to iseries output queues. Output queues are holding areas for spooled files and as queue implies, the files are ordered to be deliered out of the output queue in a first in, first out (FIFO) sequence. Also, non-iseries applications can produce print files and route them to iseries output queues. If printing is the deliery method, Figure 1 illustrates the different printer driers supported - OS/400, Host Print Transform, and Print Serices Facility for OS/400 (PSF/400). The printer drier is selected automatically based on the type of spooled file and the protocol of the target printer. In summary, business documents and reports are produced, staged within output queues, and then deliered to the appropriate consumer in the desired format. 4 iseries Guide to Output

27 400 CPU Parkway Vegetation, NJ Office: Fax: e ice ice a e e: e: ae: ae: i ia: i a e : e : e : O e e eci i ice xe i a e e i ea - ff i i a e a e ec a a e : Super Sun Seeds a e i e : ei: Page Architecture Before we progress any farther, we should zoom into the output queue and focus on what is contained within spooled files; namely, pages of information. Figure 2 shows a logical schematic of a typical business page. 400 CPU Parkway Vegetation, NJ O Office: Fax: IMAGE LOS ARBOLES DEL MUNDO ARBOL LANE MESA VERDE IL Sold To -- SAME -- Ship To -- FONT Customer Inoice Inoice Payment /28/02 8/28/02 Number: Number: Date: Date: 7/28/02 N10 MICHELE GOODACRE Ship Via: Ship Date: Terms: Rep: Qty UOM Item # Description Price Item Extension 1000 BX POT POT 45 BZ CHANTENAY SEEDS 900 EA ARBOLES DEL SUR 98 PK OREGON SPRING TOMATO SEED 4 BX AFRICAN DAISY, SEEDS 951 CT LASSO RED SEEDS 46 DZ SCARLET NANTES SEEDS 100 EA SEMILLAS DEL SUS SOMBEROS , , , , ThankYou... Because almost half of your order was Lasso Red Seeds, you will receie a 10% discount on your next order. OVERLAY Thank You... Because almost half of your order was Lasso Red Seeds, you will receie a 10% discount on your next order. TEXT Total Due $99, Return this tear-off strip with your payment. Payment is due by: 8/28/02 LOS ARBOLES DEL MUNDO ARBOL LANE MESA VERDE IL Make Checks Payable to: Super Sun Seeds Amount Due is: $99, GRAPHIC BAR CODE Figure 2. AFP Page Architecture The document contains arious logical components -- images, oerlays, bar codes, and static and ariable text in a ariety of fonts. Adanced Function Presentation (AFP) is the integrated architecture for iseries pages. For those applications that only produce simple text, the iseries data stream is SNA Character Set (SCS ). SCS does not support graphical page elements and is normally used for simple reports or documents that use pre-printed forms. Because of the myriad requirements in today s IT enironment for creating complex, fully electronic documents, we will focus on the graphical page and AFP. Besides handling the required graphical complexity, an additional key attribute of AFP page architecture is its component sub-architecture. Most of the page components are separate and external to the page data-stream. AFP was designed for business output, and certain operating characteristics performance, reliability, and security are essential for this enironment. There are certainly other page data streams, such as PCL and PostScript. Both of these page data-streams support complex graphical elements but were designed for personal print applications, not business applications. What does this business design mean? Let s take up performance. Business production printers currently top out at 2200 pages per minute, and speeds are increasing. With complex graphical applications, the system must be able to get all Chapter 1. iseries Output 5

28 of the page components to the printer at that throughput speed. With AFP, the page elements such as fonts, images (page segments), and oerlays are separate iseries objects. They are not embedded in the print data stream as with PostScript and PCL. This enables graphical objects that are used on multiple pages to be handled separately. In the case of high-speed printing, fonts, images, and oerlays are cached in printer memory and are only sent to the printer if they are not already in printer memory. This design function of AFP requires another element - interactie management. You will see two different data streams mentioned with AFP, AFP Data Stream (AFPDS) and Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS ). IPDS is slightly different from the source AFPDS and includes operation code specific to the printer being addressed. The IPDS data stream facilitates the interactie dialog between iseries and printer, controlled by PSF/400 (hereafter referred to as PSF). This dialog supports the page object caching we just described. It also enables dynamic erification that the object in printer memory is the latest ersion (and if it is not, PSF will automatically re-cache the latest ersion). The IPDS dialog is also central to the print process, managing errors and print recoery. The separation of page elements into objects with AFP also proides for security. For example, a MICR font used in a check application is like any AFP font, a separate font object. As such, standard OS/400 security can be used to ensure that the font is only accessed by authorized users or applications. As Font Architecture on page 45 depicts, the objects within AFP page architecture hae their own definition. Another name for AFP is Mixed Object: Document Content Architecture for Presentation (MO:DCA-P). The page element objects follow an OCA pattern, as follows: Table 1. AFP Page Elements and Respectie Sub-architecture Page Element Font character sets, coded fonts, code pages Bar codes Oerlays Images (OS/400 page segments) Graphics OCA Sub-Architecture Font Object Content Architecture - FOCA Bar Code Object Content Architecture - BCOCA Comprised of all OCA objects Image Object Content Architecture - IOCA Graphics Object Content Architecture - GOCA Subsequent chapters within Part I describe each of these object content architectures in detail. An additional note about ASCII data streams such as PostScript and PCL: OS/400 lets you queue ASCII output data by specifying the USERASCII data type. Howeer, these spooled files are not integrated into the functions supported with SCS and AFP data streams such as: Spooled file iew (with iseries Access) Archie Downstream output functions such as fax, , and transform to PDF IPDS print management Printer Files and DDS Let s go back to Figure 1 on page 4 and focus on the flow between the application program and the output queue. Eery program on iseries that produces output has 6 iseries Guide to Output