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IBM Licensed Programs: Printing and Document Handling Products

730 iSeries Handbook

• Print Format Utility: Enables the interactive creation of special electronic printing

applications, directly from the iSeries database. PFU is well suited for producing

packing lists, shipping labels, or similar applications that require graphical output. Both

tumble and standard duplex are supported. Print Format Utility produces complex

output that features overlays, image, and barcodes.

• Resource Management Utility: A “workbench” for AFP resources that enables you to

create, print, copy, and maintain overlays and images.

IBM Advanced Function Printing PrintSuite for OS/400 (5798-AF2, AF3)

AFP PrintSuite for OS/400 is a family of products to create electronic printing applications.

The AFP PrintSuite for OS/400 solutions – Advanced Print Utility, Page Printer Formatting

Aid, AFP Toolbox, and SAP R/3 AFP Print – are designed to enable iSeries customers to

transform application output without changes to the line-of-business application.

The AFP PrintSuite for OS/400 family of advanced printing solutions are separately

orderable. Versions of all four AFP PrintSuite solutions are available for V3R2, V3R7, and

later OS/400 versions.

Advanced Print Utility (APU) (Included as Part of 5798-AF3)

APU allows end users to design how existing line output is blended with new fonts, electronic

forms, image, and barcode, and how each page and copy appear. When complete, the

existing application is automatically monitored and transformed, using the APU design.

• End-user design of advanced electronic output.

• Application-independent, no changes to the application program are required.

• Supports complex document requirements, such as multiple page formats and copies,

each with customized layouts.

IBM Advanced Function Printing (AFP) PrintSuite for OS/400

Product number 5798-AF2 (V3R2M1), 5798-AF3 (V3R7M1 and later

releases)

Replaces product None

Minimum OS/400 level V3R2M1 / V3R7M1

Installation prerequisites None

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