IBM 47AE - 410168 User Manual

Infoprint Server for iSeries V5

Session 47AE - 410168 Mira Shnier Senior IT Specialist, Printing Systems Division, IBM Canada Ltd. mshnier@ca.ibm.com

iSeries Output Architecture

Client, network, and

iSeries ASCII

applications

PCL to AFP PS to AFP PDF to AFP

SCS

PCL

Client Access AFP Viewer

AFP Viewer Plug-in

E-mail

PDF

IPDS

Infoprint Designer

Web,

network

images

GIF to AFP JPEG to AFP TIFF to AFP

Overlays

Fonts

Psegs

Page &

Form defs

PRTAFPDTA

iSeries native

applications

Printer file

DDS

Output

queue

OS/400

PSF/400

Create

AFP Data

PDF

Subsystem

IFS

PDF

Archive

Web

COMMON 410168 47AE Infoprint Server Denver.PRZ

1-2 10/11/02

Enabling "e-output"

E-business is changing the face of business communications

Traditional information methodology has been "print and distribute"

Networks, Internet, and electronic documents are transforming this methodology

Electronic documents mean:

Tie to pre-printed form is broken Flexibility in content Flexibility in delivery

Networks and Internet drives e-business process re-engineering

Printing, if required, must take place later in the flow Electronic documents and reports can flow as the process

requires

The output of e-business - "E-output"

Ability to create fully electronic pages of information and deliver them to the desired destination in the desired format

iSeries Print Version 5

Integrated Applications

Print Services Facility for OS/400

Infoprint Server

for iSeries

e-business

enablement of

output, client and

network transforms,

ERP ASCII data stream support,

digital output

distribution,

integrated e-mail of

output, PDF,

web-ready AFP

Client Access, Facsimile Support, ImagePlus, OnDemand, Content Manager

Advanced Print Utility (APU), Page Printer Formatting Aid (PPFA), AFP Toolbox, AFP

Utilities, plus third party tools

AFP Systems Management, IPDS Printer Driver, Integrated e-mail of iSeries output

SCS, AFP, Transforms, TCP/IP, Client Access, DDS, Printer File, Finishing, Color,

Network Print Server, Virtual Print, Host Print Transform, SNMP, National

Language, DBCS, IPP Server, Java XML, Java AFP, Unicode, Page Definition to

Common Server, AFP plug-in, plus third party tools

Output Enablers

OS/400

AFP

Infoprint Designer for iSeries

Integrated document composition

including image, overlay, and full

application layout

COMMON 410168 47AE Infoprint Server Denver.PRZ

3-4 10/11/02

Infoprint Server for iSeries

Focus of Infoprint Server

Electronic Distribution of output iSeries management of network print

iSeries support for PDF

Transform services for any iSeries standard output (AFP, IPDS, SCS, even OV/400)

PDF output to e-mail, IFS, or PDF printer

High-function PDF Server Segmentation - "Electronic Burst and

Bind"

Integrated e-mail of output

PDF output can be automatically e-mailed

Multiple e-mails based on segmentation Exits for customization

iSeries as a network print server

PCL, Postscript, and PDF to AFP Postscript and PDF transform is

IBM-Adobe full-function Level 3

Portable, web-ready AFP

Add external resources to AFP data for portability and browser view

Add indexing for navigation and report segmentation

Image transforms

GIF, TIFF, and JPEG transforms to IOCA

Windows-based

Using Infoprint Server

Learning by example

Scenarios illustrating a business needs How Infoprint Server can help How it works What you need to do to make it happen

COMMON 410168 47AE Infoprint Server Denver.PRZ

5-6 10/11/02

1. Publish to the Web

Scenario - monthly reports sent out to departments in hard copy

Customer would prefer these went on the company Intranet (or Internet)

Publish to the Web - solution

1. An OS/400 application creates the data and puts it on the spool.

2. Use the IPDS to PDF conversion function to store the data in the iSeries IFS.

3. Access the data from a web application or using Client Access.

COMMON 410168 47AE Infoprint Server Denver.PRZ

7-8 10/11/02

Architecture: PDF Web publishing

iSeries native

applications

Printer file

DDS

Overlays

Fonts

Psegs

Page &

Form defs

Output

queue

OS/400

PSF/400

PDF

PSF

Configuration

Object

PDF

Device

Description

IFS

Archive

PDF subsystem setup

Device Description:

Virtual *IPDS/AFP printer on *LAN Loopback address (127.0.0.1) Unique Port number USRDFNOBJ Points to PSF Configuration object

PDF Company Intranet

PSF Configuration object

Select PDFGEN(*MAIL/*STMF/*SPLF)

Single or Multiple

Destination: Outq, IFS directory, or e-mail E-mail mapping program Default SENDER Data queue PDF device type (Recommend: *IP40300) Paper size Include PDF fonts Y/N

COMMON 410168 47AE Infoprint Server Denver.PRZ

9-10 10/11/02

Using iSeries Navigator to create a PSF Config. Object

The same object can be build using the CRTPSFCFG or CHGPSFCFG

commands.

PDF Output

PDF transform enables:

Re-engineering of output distribution Soft copy repositories for "demand pull" information

dissemination Printing directly to PDF-capable printers Integrate with custom e-mail applications

PDF files in ASCII, full text format

Full text output

SBCS raster and outline fonts DBCS raster fonts

Output PDF to:

Dynamic e-mail

Integrated File System Output queue

COMMON 410168 47AE Infoprint Server Denver.PRZ

11-12 10/11/02

Target Directory and File Name

If you specify a Root File System directory name, the file will be stored as:

/PDF-directory-name/job-name/job-user-name+ /job-number_file-number_spooled-file-name_date_sequence-number.PDF

In this example the target was specified as '/reports'

COMMON 410168 47AE Infoprint Server Denver.PRZ

13-14 10/11/02

Target Directory and File Name

If you specify a directory name in the QDLS System, the file will be stored as:

/QDLS/folder-name/job-name/job-number/job-user-name/file-number+ /spooled-file-name/date/sequence-number.PDF

In this example the target was specified as '/QDLS/EMAILS'

IBM 47AE - 410168 User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual