Q:
ABSTRACT: Will IPS command work with AIX/6000 system?
SEARCH ARG: rs/6000 5a
TOPIC THREAD: PRINT
PSF/AIX
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I have created many applications in the 370 MVS world with X'5A'
commands especially the line data application. There are about
5 commands that can be interspersed in a linedata printfile like
IPS ( place PageSegment ) Will this work with as well with
AFP printers driven by PSF/AIX? Thanks.
A:
PSF/AIX does support mixed-mode linedata with X'5A' commands
interspersed as stated in the first section (What is PSF for AIX?)
in the Print Administration manual (S544-3817-03, page 3). So yes,
assuming the page segment conforms to the IPDS architecture, this
should work.
Q:
Thanks for your help to date. We have developed an application but
we can't seem to get the printer to accept our 5A command. It just
prints is as. We have tried ASCII and EBCDIC, but no go. What
do we have to do to get accept our 5A IPS field. I know if this were
MVS I would merely have to change the output file characteristics. But
what must I do for PSF/6000?
A:
To process mixed mode data, you need to process it through line2afp
(a.k.a. acif), which means you could specify a datatype=line on the
enq command or JsFileType=line in a job script (psfin or smit). When
using line2afp, you must specify a formdef and a pagedef. To process
mixed mode data, you must also specify cc=yes and cctype=a so that the
X'5A's in column one are recognized as EBCDIC carriage controls. Note
that any information in the structured field, such as a page segment
name, must also be specified in EBCDIC.
If the variable data is in ASCII (rather than EBCDIC), and if you are
using a font with an underlying EBCDIC codepage, then you must also
specify inpexit=/usr/lpp/psf/bin/apka2e to convert the variable data
to EBCDIC.
I hope that helps.
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:
AIX PSF PSF/6000 PSF/AIX IPS X'5A' STRUCTURED FIELDS MIXED
infoprint
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Dated: 07/1999 Category: XPSF6000
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