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Introducing Advanced Function Presentation
Introducing Advanced Function Presentation
To understand what Print Services Facility™ (PSF) for z/OS® can
do for you, you must first understand the relationship between Advanced
Function Presentation (AFP) and PSF.
AFP is an
architected system of hardware and software for creating, formatting,
viewing, retrieving, printing, and distributing information about
a wide variety of printer and display devices. First introduced in
1984 to support the IBM® 3800
Model 3 high-speed printer, AFP now supports improved printing technology
and functions.
The AFP architecture
governs the creation and control of data types (such as text, font,
image, graphics, bar code, fax, color, audio, and multimedia) so that
computer output is more readable and attractive. AFP’s specific interchange
architecture, called Mixed Object Document Content Architecture (MO:DCA), makes
information interchange possible among different operating systems
that use different protocols. These operating systems include:
- AIX®
- IBM i
- Linux
- VM
- VSE
- Windows
- z/OS
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