Re: Help Systems' email about AFP support discontinued at 7.3 - not true!

FYI, I just did an overlay this past week, using the IBM print drivers on
windows 10 - the only problem I had was it wouldn't let me save my .prn
file to the C:\ root - maybe an authority issue?. I saved it to C:\TEMP
instead.

I used WINSCP to ftp it directly to my overlay file in QGPL - I renamed the
.prn file to OVERLAY.FILE so it would match the name in QGPL so I could
just drag and drop it in WINSCP. WINSCP did have a hickup trying to read
the remote directory in QGPL, but in the setup, there's an option to ignore
errors and it went smoothly after that.

I don't know what's different between the IBM driver and the Ricoh drivers,
but this overlay works fine.

Our i is at V6R1.

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:55 AM, PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

AFP is supported, there are quirks.

I've never used IBM's overlay desighers. As long as you can use the
customized print drivers for AFP you can creat the overlay.

If you're using Windows/10, IBM's drivers no longer work (they're not
'signed'); you have to use a Ricoh driver (which seems to have all of the
options the IBM drivers used to have).

Either way, you create a *.prn file on your PC.

Uploading the *.prn file to the iSeries using ACS is... interesting. You
can no longer provide the name of a file on your PC and the destination
library and let iSeries Navigator do the dirty work. With ACS you have to
upload the *.prn file to a destination in the IFS, then the overlay utility
lets you provide the IFS location and the destination library to move the
*.prn and create the *OVL object. A lot less convenient!

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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At 9:08 AM -0600 12/8/16, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

Just got an email from Help Systems saying that AFP is not supported on
IBM i 7.3 - this is not the case!

What is no longer supported is the 5770-AF1 product, Advanced Function
Printing __Utilities__ - my emphasis on __Utilities__ a la Chuck Pence'
newsgroup formatting! :)

There is no indication that the AFP data stream and protocol are no
longer supported - just this and one other tool for designing pages.
(InfoPrint Designer is also no longer supported - I thought that had gone
away some time ago.)

So an unfortunate over-enthusiastic misunderstanding, eh, what?

Regards
Vern

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