AFP Viewer Plug-in

The Windows® AFP Viewer Plug-in enables you to view AFP documents in a Web browser. For example, you can download AFP files from your OS/390® host system and view them, or you can view files that are in AFP format on the Web. Using the AFP Viewer Plug-in, you can also print AFP files on both non-AFP printers and AFP printers.

Installing the AFP Viewer Plug-in V2.0.3.0.2

To download the AFP Viewer Plug-in:
  1. Click AFP Viewer Plug-in.
  2. You are prompted to either save the program to disk or to run it from its current location. Select Save to disk.
  3. You are prompted for a directory to save the installation file to. Select a directory of your choice.
  4. Click Save.
The Windows AFP Viewer plug-in installation has been saved on your system.
To run the installation:
  • Click Open or Open Folder to open the Windows folder.
  • Run the AFP Viewer Plugin.msi command to extract all files in the Run dialog box.
  • After installing the files, delete the files you downloaded to your workstation.

Installing the Document Connect for ASF 3270 Listener and JNI Client DLLs

The Document Connect for ASF 3270 Listener is a Windows executable, which listens for 3270 screens displayed by IBM® Personal Communications, Attachmate Extra, or WRQ Reflection. If it is started, and if the FSNXML map is displayed on the 3270 screen, Document Connect for ASF 3270 Listener reads the screen content, parses it, and loads the contained Document Connect for ASF URL into a Microsoft® Internet Explorer ActiveX control.

The Document Connect for ASF Java™ Client API is a programming interface that supports the invocation of Document Connect for ASF without an emulator using Windows DLLs that host an Internet Explorer ActiveX control. The Java code is provided in docclientapi.jar in the java/bin directory.

To download the Document Connect for ASF 3270 Listener and JNI Client DLLs:

  1. Click 3270 Listener JNI Client DLLs.
  2. You are prompted to either save the program to disk or to run it from its current location. Select Save to disk.
  3. You are prompted for a directory to save the installation file to. Select a directory of your choice.
  4. Click Save.
Document Connect for ASF3270 Listener and JNI Client DLLs have been saved on your system.

The DLLs are required by programs that use the Java Client API and must be stored in a directory that is set in the Windows PATH. Follow the instructions given in the API documentation.

Installing the ASF Conversion Toolkit

Document Connect for ASF Conversion Toolkit allows you to execute and verify DCF to HTML and HTML to DCF conversions. Additionally, you can test modifications to the DocXSLConversion.xml which controls the DCF/GML to HTML and HTML to DCF/GML conversion used in Document Connect for ASF and allows customized conversion directives in doccustom1.xsl and doccustom2.xsl.

The toolkit has the following hardware prerequisites:
  • An IBM or IBM compatible PC with a minimum of 256 MB RAM and 20 MB free space
The software prerequisites include:
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows XP
  • Sun Java Virtual Machine Version 1.3.1 or higher
  • Xalan and Xerces jar files xalan.jar, xercesImpl.jar, xml-apis.jar, and serializer.jar
You can obtain the Sun Java Virtual Machine from http://www.java.com and Xalan and Xerces from http://xml.apache.org
The ASF Conversion Toolkit is a useful tool for ASF system administrators who define or modify ASF standard paragraphs.

To download the toolkit:

  1. Click ASF Conversion Toolkit.
  2. You are prompted to either save the program to disk or to run it from its current location. Select Save to disk.
  3. You are prompted for a directory to save the installation file to. Select a directory of your choice.
  4. Click Save.
The ASF Conversion Toolkit has been saved on your system.
To run the installation:
  • Create an installation directory on your disk, for example, C:\toolkit.
  • Extract the archive into the installation directory using an unzip utility.
  • Copy the Xalan and Xerces jar files xercesImpl.jar, xalan.jar, xml-apis.jar, and serializer.jar to the subdirectory bin under the installation directory, for example, to C:\toolkit\bin.
  • In the file DocConfiguration.xml in the subdirectory config in your installation directory, for example, C:\toolkit\config\DocConfiguration.xml, change all relative path occurrences (paths beginning with “./”) to installation directory paths, for example to C:\toolkit\.
  • Open a Command Prompt window and change to the installation directory.
  • Run xtoolkit.bat to verify the installation, for example, xtoolkit C:\toolkit\testdata\empty\text.txt.
  • Double click showedit.html in .\testdata\empty to start the Internet Explorer.