11 Dec 2003
IBM Infoprint Manager for Windows Version 2.1.0 README
This readme contains the following information:
Information on the following topics was removed from this README because it is now available in the | Infoprint Manager for Windows: Getting |Started manual .
|If you have modified the UserInit file for the ps2afp |transform, you must create a backup copy of the file prior to installing a |service update or new version of Infoprint Manager for Windows. If you |do not perform this task, the install program provided with Infoprint Manager |for Windows overwrites the existing UserInit file, removing all |prior changes to that file.
|Infoprint Manager for Windows installs the UserInit file into |the following locations: |
|When installing the Infoprint Manager for Windows server CD-ROM, you might |receive the Wrong Volume pop-up error message:
|The wrong volume is in the drive. Please insert volume IPM_410A_NTS1 |into drive D:
|where D: is the CD-ROM drive on your Windows |server.
|If this occurs, follow the directions and reinsert the base server CD-ROM |to complete the install successfully.
|Use the following procedure to access the publications CD-ROM: |
The contents of the publications CD are best viewed using Netscape
Navigator Version 4.7 or higher, or Internet Explorer Version
5.0 or higher. Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 3.0 can be
used to view most PDF files on the CD; however, for larger files, such as
the Infoprint Manager: Reference, Acrobat Reader Version 4.0 or
higher is required. To download Acrobat Reader, visit the Adobe web
site at http://www.adobe.com. |PTF UR54088 (APAR IR51331) contains several enhancements to function,
|usability, and reliability. Refer to the "Functional Enhancements"
|section for more information. For a summary of the fixes provided with
|this PTF, refer to the Service Page of the Infoprint Manager for Windows
|2.1 Web site at
|http://www.printers.ibm.com/R5PSC.NSF/Web/ipw210ser.
|To apply this service update, refer to the |Infoprint Manager for Windows: Getting Started manual.
|With this service update, you will notice the following changes:
| |The following enhancements in function and usability are available with the
|December 2003 Infoprint Manager for Windows PTF:
| |This support is limited to PostScript printers like the IBM Infoprint
|2060ES and IBM Infoprint 2075ES that have PostScript drivers that support this
|function.
||Release Notes for Version 2.1.0 PTF UR54088 (December 2003)
|Infoprint Manager documentation updates
|
|Functional enhancements
PTF UR53923 (APAR IR50128) contains several enhancements to function, usability, and reliability. Refer to the "Functional Enhancements" section for more information. For a summary of the fixes provided with this PTF, refer to the Service Page of the Infoprint Manager for Windows 2.1 Web site at http://www.printers.ibm.com/R5PSC.NSF/Web/ipw210ser. To apply this service update, refer to theInfoprint Manager for Windows: Getting Started manual.
If you apply PTF U53923, the default number of error logs retained for your Infoprint Manager server, Notification server, and SAP Callback processes increases from one to ten. You can increase or decrease the number of error logs that Infoprint Manager saves, but will need to follow the directions provided in "Customizing error logs in the Infoprint Manager server" in Infoprint Manager for Windows: Procedures.
A distributed environment consists of many Infoprint actual destinations for each print queue. As a general rule, as the number of jobs in a queue or the number of actual destinations on a queue grows, job throughput can slow. Infoprint Manager server (pdserver) has been enhanced in PTF UR93523 so that it processes jobs more quickly in a distributed environment if the jobs have a value for the actual-destinations-requested job attribute.
The following enhancements in function and usability are available with the April 2003 Infoprint Manager for Windows PTF:
PTF UR53740 (APAR IR48858) contains several enhancements to function, usability, and reliability. Refer to the "Functional Enhancements" section for more information. For a summary of the fixes provided with this PTF, refer to the Service Page of the Infoprint Manager for Windows 2.1 Website at http://www.printers.ibm.com/R5PSC.NSF/Web/ipw210ser. To apply this service update, refer to the Infoprint Manager for Windows: Getting Started manual.
Due to a problem with the Java implementation tools, there may be cases when the job contextual menu displays beyond the bottom of the display screen when selected from the Administration GUI or the Operations GUI. You must manually move the menu up in order to see the entire display.
Once you have successfully installed Infoprint Select, you must determine whether or not you want the enhanced version of the client that is available with PTF UR53740. If you use the enhanced Select, users can enter job and document attributes with print jobs if the printer they send the job to is a Select printer. You may decide not to provide this ability to end users since it requires an understanding of how to use attributes. For more information on the enhanced Select and specifying attributes, refer to the Infoprint Manager for Windows: Getting Started manual.
Note that if you use Infoprint Select in a language other than English, the enhanced version is not available at this time.
If you want to apply the enhanced Infoprint Select, perform the following action:
Click the Start button on your Windows system and select Programs -> Infoprint Select -> Activate attributes dialog.
This action ensures that you can access the new dialog panels that allow you to specify Infoprint job attributes when submitting a job to the server, as well as cancelling, holding, and releasing jobs within a queue from the Infoprint Select client.
The following enhancements in function and usability are available with the November 2002 Infoprint Manager for Windows PTF:
Provides the equivalent function of the following command through the GUI:
pdpause -j destination_name
After December 20, 2002, visit the Printing Systems Information Center at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/printer/psindex.htm.
While minor changes were made to the man pages, they were not included in the product build. For the most current information on mvsprsd, pdmod, pdset, pcl2afpd, pcl2afp, ps2afp, and pdf2afp, refer to the appropriate sections of the Infoprint Manager: Reference.
Note that PTF UR53705 (APAR IR48548) contains no new functional enhancements. For a summary of the fixes provided with this PTF, refer to the Service Page of the Infoprint Manager for Windows 2.1 Web site at http://www.printers.ibm.com/R5PSC.NSF/Web/ipw210ser. To apply this service update, refer to the Infoprint Manager for Windows: Getting Started manual.
Please note that information on the following topics was removed from this README because it is now available in the current publications:
When you add a form in the GUI, it only shows up in the list of available forms after a job has been run with that specific form. For example, if you associate the form Letter with Job 1, Letter will not display in the Printer -> Change Forms or Job -> Change Forms drop-down lists until after Job 1 has completed.
On the Japanese NLV version of the Common Client CD, the title of the "Contact Us" page is not translated, and contains garbled English characters. This will be fixed in a future update of the Common Client CD.
Please note that information on the following topics was removed from this README because it is now available in the current publications:
If you use PSF Direct to print from host systems, you must also install IBM SecureWay Communications Server for Windows NT at Version 6.01 with required APARs JR13453, JR13599, and JR14098 or IBM SecureWay Communications Server for Windows 2000 at Version 6.1. (Host systems include MVS, VSE, VM, and OS/400.)
Currently with Version 6.1, there is an error with configuration verification with SecureWay Communications Server. To correct this error, use the following procedure:
Verifying... PCS7210E The value NN for keyword /LOCAL_LU[LU_NAME=PSFDCFLU]/DEFAULT_POOL/ is not valid. Verify ended with errors.
Verifying... Verify complete with no errors.
Notes:
Because network objects, such as printers, are sometimes terminated abruptly (for example, powered off), it is advisable to use a periodic poll that enables TCP to discover when a connection is no longer usable. This periodic polling is called the KEEPALIVE frequency.
The frequency of these KEEPALIVE transmissions is determined by system-wide TCP/IP configuration parameters in the host(s). You should set the KEEPALIVE interval, as described in the instructions for your particular type of host, to be much smaller (for example, four minutes), to maintain the network connection. This allows the system to detect if a printer has been powered off or is no longer accessible to the network.
During configuration, a file called fonts.map is created. This file is used by the PostScript and PDF transforms. In cases where the install of Infoprint Manager is done on a new Windows system, it is possible for this file to be created with a size of 0 bytes. If this happens, the transforms will fail. To solve this problem, from a Command Prompt navigate to the install_path\PS folder and enter this command to run the font command script: fontmap.cmd.
While this script is running, it is checking for the fonts installed on your system, and you may see messages on the screen indicating fonts that are not installed. These are not error messages, and you can ignore them.
On the Infoprint Manager for Windows Font Downloader Feature CD-ROM, access the User's Guide by viewing the CD-ROM contents and clicking on "usersguide.pdf". You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this file.
Before configuring any Passthrough destinations, you must install the Generic/Text Only Driver from your Windows CD.
If a Windows 2000 machine is being used as an Infoprint Manager client and a Windows NT 4.0 machine is being used as an Infoprint Manager Server, be aware of the following situation:
A Windows Gateway Printer is created on the Windows NT server machine using Windows NT AFP drivers. That Windows Gateway Printer is then added to the Windows 2000 Client machine using the Add Printer wizard. Behind the scenes, Windows tries to load the Windows NT AFP drivers onto the Windows 2000 machine and the Windows 2000 machine crashes. Do not do this.
When you install the Infoprint Manager Server, or install the GUIs from the client CD, one icon will appear for the Operations GUI and one for the Administration GUI. When you double click either of these desktop icons, a "splash" screen will appear, and there may be a delay before the GUI screen appears. Do not double click the icon again as this will launch a second instance of the GUI.
The Infoprint Manager for Windows: Getting Started manual mentions in several places the process for uninstalling the JRE or Infoprint Manager Administrator and Operator GUIs. If you uninstall the JRE first, the GUIs cannot be uninstalled since the uninstall process for the GUIs is a Java uninstall process that requires a version of JRE to run. If you want to uninstall both the JRE and the GUIs, make sure you uninstall the GUIs first.
When a user installs Infoprint Select on a client machine from the Common Clients CD-ROM, the Infoprint Generic Driver is also installed on their Windows machine. This Infoprint Generic PostScript Driver can be used when the user creates a Select printer on their client machine. When a job is sent to the Select printer that uses this driver, the driver sets some job attributes that allow the job to be printed on a PSF actual destination only. The Infoprint Generic Driver should be used only if the Select printer is configured to point to a PSF destination. An alternate driver for the Select printer should be used if the Select printer is configured to point to another type of printer.
You must have Administrative Privilege to install or uninstall IBM Infoprint Manager for Windows. If you try to uninstall the product without administrative privilege, the following message is issued:
Setup Installation Error: Setup has detected Uninstallshield is in use, please close Uninstallshield and restart setup (Error 432).
A similar message is issued at install if you do not have administrative privilege.
Ensure that you have Administrative Privilege before attempting to install or uninstall IBM Infoprint Manager for Windows.
After you have installed IBM Infoprint Manager for Windows, the installation program asks if you want to reboot your system. The default answer to this question is Yes because Infoprint Manager will not function properly until the system is rebooted. When you click OK or press Enter, your system reboots.
Due to known limitations involving prolonged server activity, it is strongly recommended that the Infoprint Manager Server be stopped and restarted every seven (7) days to avoid potential problems that could disrupt server processing.
To stop and restart the server:
The following enhancements in function and usability are available with the November 2002 Infoprint Manager for Windows PTF:
Provides the equivalent function of the following command through the GUI:
pdpause -j destination_name
After December 20, 2002, visit the Printing Systems Information Center at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/printer/psindex.htm.
While minor changes were made to the man pages, they were not included in the product build. For the most current information on mvsprsd, pdmod, pdset, pcl2afpd, pcl2afp, ps2afp, and pdf2afp, refer to the appropriate sections of the Infoprint Manager: Reference.