Summary of changes

PSF for z/OS: Customization
S550-0427-04

Summary of changes

PSF for z/OS®: Customization, S550-0427-04

This publication contains additions and changes to information previously presented in PSF for z/OS: Customization, S550-0427-04.

General changes

References to PSF 4.2.0 for z/OS have been removed because it is no longer in service.
References to AIX® 5L POWER® have been removed because it is no longer in service.
References to "InfoPrint ProcessDirector" have been changed to "Ricoh ProcessDirector".
The z/OS Font Collection (a base feature of z/OS V2R1) and Infoprint Fonts for z/OS have been added to references of the AFP Font Collection.
PSF now supports these resources in direct-printing mode: TrueType and OpenType fonts; QR Code bar codes with SOSI data; resources defined with resource access tables (RATs), such as object containers and color management resources (CMRs); extended code pages. PSF also supports the FONTPATH and OBJCPATH PRINTDEV parameters in direct-printing mode.

New information

New Printer Inventory parameters, Auxiliary files MOD:DCA level and PINST trace dsname have been added to Figure 31, Figure 32, PINST trace dsname, and Auxiliary files MO:DCA level.
Specifying AFPPARMS control statement parameters has been added.
Setting up MO:DCA IS/3 auxiliary pages has been added.
TrueType and OpenType fonts in direct-printing mode has been added.
A new section, Setting Workload Manager goals, has been added for AFP performance tuning of the host system.

Changed information

A description of Mixed Object Document Content Architecture Presentation Interchange Set 3 (MO:DCA IS/3) has been added to Understanding PSF for z/OS.
The title for Chapter 2 has been updated to "Configuring the system for PSF for z/OS". A new topic, Enabling PSF in the SYS1.PARMLIB member, has been added. Changing the system environment has been updated with a note for defining an OMVS segment and home directory to the RACF® user ID or group name.
Information that PSF supports IPv4 and IPv6 has been added to Requirements for using a TCP/IP-attached IPDS printer.
JES has been changed to JES2 in Using commands to backspace and advance printer output.
A note has been added to Connecting TCP/IP-attached printers.
Understanding performance issues has been updated with a recommendation for buffer size based on performance testing.
Table 5 has been updated.
Information about the Log messages parameter has been updated in Common message log, Specifying Printer Inventory parameters, and Log messages.
References to Unicode-enabled or enabling PSF for Unicode have been removed or updated, including in these topics:
- Unicode enabled
- PARM parameters on the EXEC statement
The parameter description for Printer IP address has been updated.
Figure 34 has been updated with a fourth TCP/IP-attached printer.
The CHARS and FCB default values for the JES3 initialization statement parameter, PDEFAULT, have been updated to indicated that the PRINTDEV value for CHARS or PAGEDEF is used when WS=U or WS=C is specified on the DEVICE statement. Also see Page definitions in deferred-printing mode and FOCA fonts in deferred-printing mode.
The JES3 initialization statement parameter, WS, has been added.
The wording describing Figure 37 and Figure 38 in Sample PSF startup procedures have been updated.
Figure 37 has been updated with the DD name for the AFPPARMS control statement and multiple changes for a new TCP/IP-attached printer that generates separator pages and message data sets by using only TrueType and OpenType fonts.
The UNICODE parameter in the PARM EXEC statement has been removed. See Figure 37 and Figure 38.
Disabled mechanisms has been updated with a note about restarting the PSF FSA.
The map of SMF type 6 records in Figure 48 has been updated.
Figure 50 has been updated with a font path DD statement for TrueType and OpenType fonts.
Searching for resources specified by a print job has been updated with information about where resource types are located.
Minimum storage requirements for FSSs and FSAs have been updated in Selecting region sizes.
A note that MO:DCA IS/3 data streams support only TrueType and OpenType fonts has been added to Using TrueType and OpenType Fonts.
The SYSLIB statement in Figure 71 has been updated.
The sample JCL for Compiling a C exit has been updated to explicitely refer to the ILP32 default, and a note has been added that PSF C exits are only supported in 32-bit mode.
Figure 73 has been updated.
The format of the APSUECE exit-communication area has been updated with new fields. See Figure 78 and the updated fields starting at ECEDSCNT.
IAZJSEP has been replaced with JSPEXT. See JES job-separator-page area—IAZJSPA.
"JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF)" has been changed to "AFPC JPEG Subset (JPEG)" in Hardcopy printer information report and Softcopy printer information report.

Deleted information

A table of approximate maximum printer data rates has been removed from Printer data rate requirements.
Reference to AFP Font Collection 2.1.0 has been removed in Double-byte raster font capture because it is obsolete.
The "Generating QR Code bar codes in a page definition" chapter has been removed.
The "Activating conversion services" appendix has been removed.