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AFP External Resources

There are five AFP external resources. These are:

These resources are stored in system and user libraries. PSF, the AFP printer driver, dynamically manages all the resources required for AFP printing. PSF detects when an output dataset requires an external resource and retrieves the resource from the library as defined in the appropriate DD statement in the PSF procedure.

Each external resource type usually resides in a separate library. It is possible to have a number of libraries for each resource type. In this case, the libraries are concatenated in the appropriate PSF DD statements in the PSF procedure.

A number of methods exist for specifying that an external resource is required, depending on the type of resource.

Methods of assigning external AFP resources are described below.

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The AFP Architecture