Transform your output
Every
day your z/OS-based applications generate huge amounts of information, reports,
and other output which must be delivered quickly, accurately, efficiently, and
in a variety of formats to customers, employees, partners, and suppliers all
over the globe. But a large number of
output formats can be complex to manage, making it difficult to optimize your processes
and environment. Don't change your z/OS
output; use IBM products to transform it to gain increased flexibility and
efficiency for your operations.
The IBM Infoprint® Server for z/OS (an optional, priced feature of z/OS®, 5694-A01)
and its companion print transform products can provide a highly available,
well-integrated output solution to support business communication with
suppliers, partners and clients.
Infoprint Server for z/OS (an optional, priced feature of z/OS,
5694-A01) is the basis for a total output solution for the z/OS environment. It
lets you consolidate your print workload from many servers onto a central z/OS
print server and allows you to leverage the power, scale, and resilience of
z/OS.
Infoprint Server for z/OS can help deliver improved efficiency,
manageability, and data usability, as well as lower overall printing cost by
giving you the flexibility of using high-volume, high-speed printers, local network
printers, or electronic delivery, anywhere and anytime.
Infoprint Central, a no-charge component available with Infoprint Server
for z/OS, is a powerful, yet easy to use Web-based print management user
interface that allows help desk operators, print administrators, and users to
view print jobs, queues and printers. This
print management tool can help you reduce the overall cost of distributed print
management by making it easier and faster to train new operators and by giving
them a productivity tool to more quickly diagnose and solve print-related
problems.
IBM print transform products can help give you the flexibility to
optimize your output operations by automatically transforming data streams from
one format to another for print or electronic delivery.
The IBM Print Transforms from AFP products can protect your investment in
AFP™ -based applications by converting their output into PCL or PostScript® for
printing on desktop or shared departmental printers. You can also convert AFP
output into encrypted PDF for distribution via e-mail and viewing using Adobe®
Acrobat®.
The print transforms to AFP product lets you consolidate LAN-based
application output onto your reliable, cost-effective AFP printers. By
converting PostScript and PDF formats into AFP, you can also handle new
application workloads to reduce print times, improve reliability, and reduce
printing cost per page by moving these applications onto your high-speed AFP
production printers.
Administrators can set up the transforms to automatically transform
documents before they are printed. Users can also use the z/OS UNIX command
line to transform documents, which can then be saved in the converted format
and later printed or sent to other users.
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