DDS for printer files
Beginning with OS/400 V3R1 the Advanced Function Printing (AFP(TM))
subsystem is a separately orderable feature of OS/400(R) called Print
Services Facility (PSF/400).
There are two separate subsystems in the OS/400 operating system.
The original OS/400 printing subsystem continues to support line printers and
a subset of IBM(R) IPDS(TM) 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 upon the values specified for certain keywords,
PSF/400 is required. For example, spooled files generated with
DEVTYPE(*APFDS) can only be printed by PSF/400.
Following 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(R) server, the DDS underline keyword should not be used because it
will not print correctly.)
- UNISCRIPT
- ZFOLD
See the Printer Device Programming
book for more information on PSF/400.
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