Object containers as data object resources

PSF for z/OS: User's Guide

Object containers as data object resources

PSF for z/OS: User's Guide
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Object containers as data object resources

Object container and image (IOCA) resources that PSF supports as hard or soft resources are called data object resources. These are some of the object container resources that PSF supports as data object resources:

Color management resource
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
IOCA tile
PDF resource
PDF single-page
PDF multiple-page
Resident color profile
Other object containers, such as GIF, PCL, PCX, PNG, and TIFF, including TIFF multiple-image

See Mixed Object Document Content Architecture Reference, AFPC-0004 for a complete list of data object resources. See Color and grayscale printing for information about data objects used in color printing.

Hard data object resources are identified in the print data set by using the Map Data Resource (MDR) structured field and must be in a PSF system object container library, in a user library specified by the USERLIB or USERPATH parameter, or coded inline as part of the print data set. A soft data object resource is included by a page definition or by an IOB structured field in the input data set.

Notes:

If an object container resource is inline as part of the print data set, the resource must be wrapped with MO:DCA structured fields.
If an object container resource is placed in a system or user library the resource might or might not be wrapped in MO:DCA structured fields:
- For an object container resource wrapped in MO:DCA structured fields, the library is defined with carriage controls.
- For an object container resource not contained in an object container, the library is defined without carriage controls. The library can be concatenated with libraries that do have carriage controls.

See Table 2 for the prefixes that IBM® recommends for naming some data object resources.

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