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Application Support Facility

Features and benefits

Application Support Facility (ASF) Version 3 provides the following features:

Automated document processing

  • Predefined text elements
  • Structured documents
  • Combination of data and text

Increased productivity

  • Create customized menus
  • Create and maintain pattern documents
  • Automate manual tasks

Improved system management

  • Shared resources across installation boundaries
  • Controlled overall access security

Integrated corporate data

  • Switch between applications
  • Controlled user dialogs
  • Shared system functions

Protected investment

  • Use existing interfaces
  • Access OfficeVision/MVS™

Growth made easy

  • Remove constraints
  • Real-time formatting and printing

 

Document Connect for ASF:

  • Allows users to generate documents from a Web client.  These are the same documents users can also generate using a 3270 interface to the Document Composition function.
  • Creates an easier to learn and use environment
  • Allows authorized users to update text and formatting options more easily
  • Supports a mixture of 3270 and Web client users, allowing you to move users at your own pace
  • Protects your investment by:
    • Leaving the administrator-defined resources for document composition unchanged
    • Continuing to support existing business processes
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Technical details

ASF for z/OS V3.4

Document Connect for ASF

ASF for z/OS V3.3

ASF V3 R2