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Detailed prerequisites, features and supporting information may be found in the Sales Manual.
Hardware requirements
PPFA for the mainframe is intended to run on IBM zSeries® processors supported by OS/390®, z/OS®, VM or VSE, or equivalent processor hardware. PPFA is also available as an optional feature of Infoprint® Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L™ and Infoprint Manager for Windows®.
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Pagedefs and formdefs created using PPFA are intended for use on printers that use the Intelligent Printer Data Stream™. This includes a wide variety of cut sheet and continuous forms printers from IBM and third party vendors.
Software requirements
PPFA runs as a batch program in the operating systems listed above using one of the following methods to compile PPFA source commands into objects that PSF can use for printing to an IPDS™ printer:
- Job Control Language (JCL) for OS/390 and z/OS
- Job Control Statements (JCS) for VSE
- Command execution in the Conversational Monitor System (CMS) environment for VM
- PPFA command in the AIX and Windows command line interface
PPFA can be used in any IBM supported release of OS/390, z/OS , VM, VSE, AIX or Windows.
To print output using the resources created by PPFA, one of the following print driver products is required:
- Print Services Facility™ for z/OS
- Print Services Facility/VM
- Print Services Facility/VSE
- OS/400® with the optional PSF/400 feature
- Infoprint Manager for AIX
- Infoprint Manager for Windows
Note: New functions added to PPFA are not supported by all PSF and Infoprint Manager licensed programs on the same schedules.
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*PPFA is an optional feature of Infoprint® Manager V4.2 for AIX 5L™ and Infoprint Manager for Windows®.
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