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System Prerequisites
The following section describes system prerequisites necessary to use ACIF in the
AIX, OS/390, MVS, VM, and VSE environments.
AIX Prerequisites
Either one of the following AIX software products is required to use ACIF:
| PSF for AIX Version 2.1 (program number 5765-505) with, minimally, the
| psf.acif option installed. This version of PSF for AIX requires IBM AIX for RISC
| System/6000 Version 3.2.5 (program number 5756-030) or higher.
| Notes:
| 1. Installation of
only
psf.acif will provide you with the ability to run the acif
| command.
| The formdef parameter is required for running ACIF. For AIX, see page 34.
| For OS/390, MVS, VM, or VSE, see page 96. Though you may use form
| definitions from other sources, the psf.acif install option provides a form
| definition named F1ACIF. (See the description for form definition F1A10110
| in
IBM Print Services Facility for AIX: Print Submission
for details regarding
| form definition F1ACIF.)
| The pagedef parameter is required for running ACIF if the input file
| contains S/370 line data, mixed-mode data, or unformatted ASCII data.
| Though you may use page definitions from other sources, several page
| definitions are provided with PSF for AIX. The PSF-supplied page
| definitions are installed into the /usr/lpp/psf/reslib directory with the
| psf.acif option. These page definitions are listed and described in
IBM
|
Print Services Facility for AIX: Print Submission
.
| 2. In order to print and to use the other resources that are available for ACIF,
| you must
also
install psf.base.
| InfoPrint Manager for AIX 3.1.0. This version of InfoPrint Manager requires AIX
| version 4.2.1 and higher.
OS/390 or MVS Prerequisites
The following OS/390 or MVS software products are required to use ACIF:
| MVS/ESA Version 5.2.0 or OS/390
| PSF/MVS 2.2.0 or PSF/MVS 3.1.0 for OS/390.
VM Prerequisites
The following VM software products are required to use ACIF:
VM/SP 5 or above
VM/SP HPO 5 or above
VM/XA 1.2.1 or above
VM/ESA 1.1.0 or above
PSF/VM 2.1.0 (with PTF# UN37799 for printing files that contain indexing tags) or
PSF/VM 2.1.1
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