Migrating to Print Transforms

This topic describes how to migrate to IBM® Print Transforms from AFP for Infoprint Server for z/OS® V1.1 (called Print Transforms from AFP) from these older transform products (called Infoprint Transforms from AFP):

• IBM Infoprint Transform for AFP to HP PCL for z/OS
• IBM Infoprint Transform for AFP to Adobe PDF for z/OS
• IBM Infoprint Transform for AFP to Adobe PostScript for z/OS

After you install Print Transforms from AFP, you can use Infoprint Transforms from AFP and Print Transforms from AFP at the same time. You might want to use both transform products at the same time while you are testing Print Transforms from AFP.

You can use both transform products at the same time because the names of the transform commands, transform filters, and transform daemons for Print Transforms from AFP are different from those for Infoprint Transforms from AFP. In addition, the Infoprint Server transform configuration file (aopxfd.conf) can contain entries for both Print Transforms from AFP and Infoprint Transforms from AFP.

To use Print Transforms from AFP, you specify Print Transforms from AFP commands on the z/OS UNIX command line or in the AOPBATCH JCL procedure, and you specify Print Transforms from AFP filters in the printer definitions. Table 21 shows the transform command names, filter names, and daemon names for both transform products.

Follow these steps to migrate to Print Transforms from AFP:

1. Editing the Infoprint Server transform configuration file
2. Stopping and restarting the Infoprint Server Transform Manager daemon
3. Editing Infoprint Server printer definitions
4. Editing JCL and scripts
5. Migration considerations