| The following lists new function which has been added to DCF Version 1 Release 4.0. This document does not list any corequisites or prerequisites needed from other software or printer microcode. See the particular APAR for additional required system levels, corequisites or prerequisites needed. If you need assistance, please contact your IBM Printing System representative.
Support for Infoprint Color 130 Plus (APAR PQ43607 (2001/06/29)
APAR PQ43607 allows DCF users to map resources and overlays at the start of a document for enhanced printer performance with the Infoprint Color 130 Plus printer.
Install PTFs without warnings (APAR PQ40666 (2000/08/22)
For years, installing PTFs on DCF meant warning messages for unresolved external references
warning messages for amode and rmode conflicts
return code 4 on all PTFs that rebuilt the formatter modules
The return code 4 and warnings meant that the listings from applying PTFs always had to be carefully checked to make sure that the warnings were only those documented in the program directory as expected.
These warnings and return codes have been eliminated by APAR PQ40666. After applying the fixing PTFs for PQ40666 you can expect a return code of zero and no warning messages from normal service installs. This means less work for you scanning through lists of messages. Now you will only get a return code greater than zero when there is a real problem.
Printing the Euro character
For information on printing the euro with DCF PostScript output, see Information APAR II12094. German Reform for spelling and hyphenation (PQ19283 98/12/17) The DCF Alternate Algorithmic Hyphenator for German, introduced by APAR PN45270, is changed to reflect changes in the official German rules for hyphenation and spelling. Dutch Reform for spelling and hyphenation (PQ18371 98/08/12) The DCF default dictionaries used for hyphenation and spell checking were updated to reflect changes in the official Dutch language. Rotate your page overlays (PQ12375 98/03/26) Now you can get more from your overlays. APAR PQ12375 adds a new ROTATE keyword to the .OI (overlay include) control. In the past, if you wanted to use your overlays in different rotations with Script, you had to create copies in each rotation. Now a single overlay can be rotated at 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees relative to the physical page. No changes to existing overlays are needed. Just add the ROTATE keyword to the .OI commands in your document if you want to rotate the overlays. Only printers which support rotation on the IPO (Include Page Overlay) structured field will print your overlays with the correct rotation. Here is a list of IBM printers that support this kind of overlay rotation:
Infoprint 60
Infoprint 62
Infoprint 2000 Model DP1
Infoprint 3000
Infoprint 4000
Infoprint 4100
Infoprint Color 130 Plus
Some of the printers above may require specific levels of microcode to support page overlays with rotation. See the "Mixed Object Document Content Architecture Reference" for more details on the IPO structured field. See the "Printer Summary" and "Printer Information Manual" for more information on the IBM printers listed above. See the "Script/VS Language Reference" for more information on the .OI control word. PSF/MVS must be at PTF UW44591 or higher to support page overlay rotation on the IPO structured field. B2H and H2S packages on Web Two packages have been made available on IBM's web page at: http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/
B2H This utility gives the user the opportunity to place a document created using BookMaster, GML, Script/VS or "flat" text files directly on the Internet in HTML format. In this format, the document can be viewed with a common browser and printed on any locally-attached Web printer. H2S The H2S utility provides a mechanism to translate an HTML text document into "script" format. Once stored as script, the document can be printed on any Advanced Function Printer in the enterprise through IBM's AFP driver, Print Services Facility. H2S does not support graphics or image. This utility will be is especially helpful when there is a requirement to direct a Web-based text document to a high-speed production AFP printer such as the IBM Infoprint 4000 or IBM 3900 Advanced Function Printers.
Raster Font Resolution Triplet (PQ07945) This APAR adds font resolution information to the MCF/2 structured field SCRIPT when formatting for any of the AFP or AFP2 logical devices. PSF/MVS uses the resolution information to determine which system library to use to print the document and to aid in the font substitution process. The font resolution information is ignored by PSFs that do not specifically support it. PSF/MVS APAR OW27622 and MVS APAR OW27295 allow you to define more than one font system library per printer. This support is for printers like the Infoprint 4000 which allows you to switch to different resolutions or use AUTO resolution mode. Percent Shading/Extended Color (PQ04183) This APAR adds a new set of logical devices, "AFP2xxxx" which are similar to the AFPxxxx logical devices, except they use outline fonts (FONTOLN) as their default and support enhanced color. The new COLOR parameter on .BX, .DA and .TD CELL control words can be used to specify background color. COLOR applies only to printers with color capabilities. This APAR also adds enhanced color to the COLOR parameter to the .DF, .DR, and .IO control words. The new .CR control word allows the user to define a "named color" for use on the .BX, .DA, .DF, .DR, .IO and .TD CELL control words. The new COLOR attribute on the RDEF GML tag specifies the background color for the cell. CMS Maclib Fix (PQ06259) When specifying
SCRIPT fn ft fm (LIB(A B C)
On VM/ESA V2.1.0 you get the following messages:
SCRIPT/VS RELEASE 4, LEVEL (0.0) - 09/
DMSOPN002E File A MACLIB * not found
DMSOPN002E File B MACLIB * not found
DMSOPN002E File C MACLIB * not found
DMSOPN002E File C MACLIB * not found
UNABLE TO ACCESS MACRO/SYMBOL LIBRARY.
It is incorrect to get two messages for the C MACLIB not being found. One message is sufficient. PQ03992 solved this problem for the DSM4 disk resident module, but not for a shared segment module or double byte module. DCF for 2000 and beyond (PN83692) (04/96) A new system symbol &$year is created which provides the year in a 4 digit format. New batch application interface (PN76775) (02/96) The DCF CICS Interface Control Block which is used for calling Script from CICS transactions can now be used by other MVS batch applications to call Script without requiring the CICS product. Larger output comments (PN73292 and PN80708) (02/96) You can now create longer output comments in your MODCA-P datastream by using the new ON and OFF keywords to the Script .oc (output comment) control word. Your output comment is no longer restricted to the amount of text that will fit on a single input line. Hypertext linking (PN69864) This support provides some automatic linking such as cross-reference tags, table of contents, etc. Using hypertext linking, the document can be processed by the AFP Viewer and you can easily navigate to targets by clicking on the source. For example, if you click on a cross-reference tag expansion, the Viewer will automatically jump to the referenced spot. The object being linked to can also be an executable program. You get hypertext linking inserted automatically in the GML starter set when you specify SYSVAR(Z YES) with an AFP device type. This function is recognized by CSD level 2.20 and DCF Viewer Feature. Outline fonts (PN69168) DCF now supports outline fonts. Outline printers have the advantage of only requiring a font in a single point size rather than having to supply raster fonts in every desired size. This saves storage at both the host and printer. Customers must be at PSF/MVS 2.2.0 and above, with APAR OW08340 to print using outline fonts. No GML starter set profile changes are required. To use outline fonts with the new AFP logical device type just specify the outline font library and a coded font for outline. For example, in VM: DEV(AFPA) CHARS(XZN2200E) FONT(FONTOLN) Include objects (PN68001, PN69029, and PN88274) DCF can now include more kinds of objects using the new MODCA Include Object (IOB) structured field. There are two main functions provided:
Inclusion of IOCA, BCOCA, and GOCA objects with scaling, rotating, and positioning of the displayed information. Reference to non-AFP objects such as PostScript, TIFF, Bitmap, multimedia, etc.
This function is recognized by CSD level 2.15. Support for LE/370 (PN61308) The DCF Office Document Feature can now be used with either the original C/370 libraries or the newer LE/370 libraries Printing Performance Improvement (PN55930) DCF now produces a smaller, more efficient output datastream that can speed up certain printing tasks dramatically by fewer CTX/PTX structured fields for complex tables. Alternate German Hyphenator (PN45270) Documents in German can now take advantage of an alternative German hyphenator that was previously only available as a separate program offering. Indexing and Navigation (PN36437) DCF adds new indexing and navigation support. Indexing consists of placing information into the output datastream that allows applications (such as viewing and archive/retrieval) to access the information in a logical manner. For example, you may want to retrieve a set of pages from a large print file, such as an individual insurance policy or billing statement. First the datastream is tagged with the logical groupings and indexing information, and then these tags are extracted by subsequent applications. Both the generating and the processing applications must understand the structure of the indexing information, which is why it is architected as part of the AFP data stream. Navigation information in the AFP data stream: - Provides a generic mechanism for an application or user to insert indexing tags
- Tags provide a method to identify a section (invoice, page, chapter, policy, etc.) of the presentation format of information
- Navigation exploits AFP's structured architecture, with the addition of new structured fields
- Used by applications such as AFP Archive.
Indexing and navigation information is not applicable to a printing environment. To quietly ignore this new function PSF/VM requires APAR PN42666, PSF/MVS 2.2.0 requires APAR OY65159, and PSF2 requires APAR IR22335. Utility Dataset Management (PN40588) Now your documents can clean up their own utility files. DCF adds a DELETE keyword to the .DD control word in the MVS environment so users can explicitly delete the DSMUTWTF file when they are done. Core interchange fonts (PN21493) DCF supports core interchange fonts and adds new DEV(AFPx) logical device types which pick 300 pel core fonts by default and generate AFP output in 1440ths. These new logical devices are basis for other enhancements since they provide for better fidelity when viewing. - AFPxxxx - follow the same pattern for logical device sizes and rotations as the 3820xxxx devices.
- Default font is Times New Roman 10pt with codepage T1000395
- Output will be AFPDS in l-units of 1440/inch
- Bulleted list items use special codepage T1001039
- Does not require a special font for bullets or typographic characters
- SMFF is not supported
- BookMaster also recognizes AFP device types
- Core Fonts exist in both 240 and 300 pel resolutions so the output can be printed on either type of printer. For best fidelity you should format with the same resolution as the intended printer.
GOCA objects in page segments (PN19457) DCF now allows your page segments to contain GOCA objects. To print page segments containing GOCA objects, PSF/VM requires APAR PN00719, and PSF/MVS requires APAR OY44308 and you must print to a GOCA-enabled printer. Support for CICS command level interface (PN12161) DCF adds a new command level interface for CICS. This allows our CICS customers to move to newer levels of CICS which no longer support the old macro level interface. This also enables the DCF CICS module to run and acquire storage above the 16 megabyte line. | 
