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Document Composition Facility (DCF)

Document Composition Facility (DCF)

Document Composition Facility (DCF) is a program that is used primarily to prepare and format documents for printing. It is another product that can be used with ACIF to index your data in the z/OS®, VM, or VSE environments. Along with its many other features, DCF can add both group-level and page-level indexing tags; whereas, with ACIF, you can add only group-level indexing tags. Only ACIF generates the index object file.

In DCF, the indexing function is known as "navigation". DCF also provides a different function already called "indexing". In DCF terminology, you "navigate" through a document with the viewing application, and its indexing function is used to build an alphabetical listing of page references (a "back-of-the-book index").

Support for navigation (indexing) is provided with DCF Version 4.0. APAR PN36437 is required to enable the support. For more information about DCF, see Document Composition Facility SCRIPT/VS Language Reference, SH35-0070.