Summary of Changes
PSF for z/OS®:
AFP Download Plus, S550-0433-05
This publication contains additions and changes to information
previously presented in PSF for z/OS: AFP Download Plus, S550-0433-05.
General changes
- AFP Download Plus now supports InfoPrint Manager for Linux as
a download receiver.
- References to "InfoPrint ProcessDirector" have been changed
to the product's new name "Ricoh ProcessDirector".
- References to z/OS Font
Collection, which is a base element of z/OS Version
2 Release 1.0, have been added to references for AFP Font Collection.
- "UNIX file system" has been changed to "z/OS File System (zFS)" because
zFS is the strategic file system for z/OS.
- Text that says "IBM® recommends" has
been removed or rewritten.
Changed information
- The ACIF column in Table 1 has been updated.
- Limitations has been updated for files that are not
compliant with MO:DCA IS/3.
- Software requirements has been updated.
- Information in Installing AFP Download Plus has been updated.
- Minimum storage requirements for FSSs and FSAs have been updated
in Table 6.
- Information that AFP Download Plus supports IPv4 and IPv6 has been added
to Configuring TCP/IP.
- Creating a startup procedure has been updated with a note about updating
the startup procedure to generate auxiliary files that are MO:DCA
IS/3 compliant.
- Figure 6 has been updated with a sample FSA that
uses MO:DCA IS/3 separator pages and message files.
- The description of UNICODE has been updated for
the EXEC PARM statement.
- The defaults member name in the AFPPARMS control statement can
be either DEFAULTS or AFPDPDEF. See How members in the data set are specified, Selection hierarchy for AFPPARMS parameters, and AFPPARMS parameter selection hierarchy.
- These AFPPARMS parameters have been updated in Table 9:
- compression, dataset-grouping, direct-download, send-messages-on-failure,
and send-separator-pages have been updated with notes about MO:DCA IS/3
compliant files.
- formdefs has been updated with a note about when a
job sent to the receiver might fail to print or be archived, without
any error messages.
- An "X" has been removed from the OUTPUT JCL column for working-directory.
- APSHPRM1 sample member for AFPPARMS has been updated.
- The PRINTDEV parameters CHARS, DSHDR, JOBHDR, JOBTRLR, and MESSAGE
have been updated in Table 11 and the Printer Inventory
parameters Character sets, Compression, Data
set grouping, Direct download, Send messages
on failure, and Send separator pages have been updated
in Table 12 with notes about MO:DCA IS/3 compliant files. Also
see Sending z/OS separator
pages, CHARS parameter in Table 20,
and Sending messages to the receiver system.
- Resources Included Inline: Form definitions has been updated with a note about when
a job sent to the receiver might fail to print or be archived, without
any error messages.
- The descriptions of Unicode enabled and IP address have been updated.
- GETHOSTBYNAME has been removed from the list of pending commands
in Table 18 while FREEADDRINFO, GETADDRINFO, and PTON
have been added.
- The CHARS and FCB default values for the JES3 initialization statement
parameter PDEFAULT have been updated to indicate that
the PRINTDEV value for CHARS or PAGEDEF is used when WS=U or WS=C
is specified on the DEVICE statement. Also, JES3 WS parameter in the Device statement has
been updated.
- In Table 19, GETHOSTBYNAME has been removed from
the list of pending commands for the INITIALIZING TCP/IP status and
TCP/IP INTERFACE CONNECTED sub-status while FREEADDRINFO, GETADDRINFO,
and PTON have been added. Also, FREEADDRINFO has been added to the
list of pending commands for the TERMINATING TCP/IP status and TCP/IP
INTERFACE CONNECTED sub-status.
- Monitoring error messages has been updated to clarify when the
message data set is sent to the receiver.
- A block size recommendation has been added to Allocating a PSF trace data set and Allocating an FSS trace data set.
- Figure 14 has been updated for z/FS tracing support.
- Selecting an exit program and Using the apshhmds exit program have been
updated with information about MO:DCA IS/3 compliant data sets.
- Using the apshhmds exit program has been updated with a note about how -o attributes
are selected in a multiple data set job.
- Appendix D. Download receiver support has been updated with current releases
and support.
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