Beginning with OS/400® V3R1,
the Advanced Function Printing™ (AFP™) subsystem
is a separately orderable feature of i5/OS™ called Print Services Facility™ (PSF).
There are two separate subsystems in the i5/OS operating system. The original i5/OS printing subsystem continues to support line
printers and a subset of IBM® Intelligent Printer Data Stream™ (IPDS™)
printers and print functions. Full support for all IPDS printers is provided by the integrated AFP printing
subsystem. The printing subsystem used to process application output is determined
by the device description of the target printer. Only printers defined as
DEVTYPE(*IPDS) and AFP(*YES) (both specified in the printer device description)
are controlled by the AFP printing subsystem.
In order to print based on the values specified for certain keywords, PSF
is required. For example, spooled files generated with DEVTYPE(*AFPDS) can
only be printed by PSF.
Here is a list of DDS keywords that are valid for printer
files that have the printer device type (DEVTYPE) parameter value specified
as *AFPDS. Restrictions on DDS keywords are contained in this list as well.
- AFPRSC
- ALIAS
- BARCODE
- BOX
- CDEFNT
- CHRID (Only applies to output printed using a printer resident font. If
a coded font (CDEFNT) or a font character set and code page combination (FNTCHRSET)
is specified, the CHRID keyword is ignored and a message issued.)
- CHRSIZ
- COLOR (Color is ignored if your printer does not support color printing.)
- CVTDTA
- DATE
- DATFMT
- DATSEP
- DFT
- DLTEDT
- DOCIDXTAG
- DRAWER
- DTASTMCMD
- DUPLEX
- EDTCDE
- EDTWORD
- ENDPAGE
- ENDPAGGRP
- FLTFIXDEC
- FLTPCN
- FONT
- FORCE
- FNTCHRSET
- GDF
- HIGHLIGHT (Only applies to output printed using a printer resident font.
If a coded font (CDEFNT) or a font character set and code page combination
(FNTCHRSET) is specified, the HIGHLIGHT keyword is ignored and a message issued.)
- IGCCDEFNT
- INDARA
- INDTXT
- INVMMAP
- LINE
- MSGCON
- OVERLAY
- OUTBIN
- PAGNBR
- PAGRTT
- PAGSEG
- POSITION
- PRTQLTY
- REF
- REFFLD
- SKIPA (Not allowed at the file level in a spooled file with printer device
type *AFPDS.)
- SKIPB (Not allowed at the file level in a spooled file with printer device
type *AFPDS.)
- STAPLE
- STRPAGGRP
- TEXT
- TIME
- TIMFMT
- TIMSEP
- TXTRTT
- UNDERLINE (When creating an AFPDS spooled file to be distributed to a zSeries® server,
the DDS underline keyword should not be used because it will not print correctly.)
- UNISCRIPT
- ZFOLD