Intermate i5 General Description of Auto Forms Control Sub- system, User profile, Job description

General Description of Auto Forms Control Sub- system

Auto Forms Control (AFC) is a unique facility of the InterForm400® system, which enables you to define automatic control of merging spool entries with overlays without the need of any programming.

Auto Forms Control is monitoring data queues of defined output queues, looking for spool files to become ready. When a spool file becomes ready, a dataqueue entry will be created which wakes up the AFC job associated with the specific output queue.. A copy of the spool file will be created and processed according to the AFC entries made for the monitored output queue.

Auto Forms Control takes *SCS spool files from the spool system, adds an electronic form and manipulates the spool data accordingly and sends the resulting spool file (containing PCL code) back to the spool system.

When installing InterForm400®, Auto Forms Control is also automatically installed. During the installation of Auto Forms Control the following objects will be created on the system:

•	Sub-system description:	APF3812/AUTO_FORM
•	User profile:	AFCOPER PASSWORD(*NONE)
		SPCAUT(*SPLCTL)
•	Job description:	APF3812/AUTO_FORM

Note that if you want to make use of the feature of InterForm400® to transform AFPDS spool entries into *USERASCII, and these AFP jobs are using resource libraries not listed in the system library list, then the above job description must be changed in order to include these libraries in the library list.

The setup of the primary functions of Auto Forms Control is managed by selecting menu option 5 on the main menu. The same menu can be entered directly by the program call:

CALL APF3812/AFCADM

The menu appears like this:

InterForm400® - Auto Forms Control	System	: INTER01
	Workstn ID...	: QPADEV0003
Select one of the following options:	User ID	: PETER

1.Functions attached to Output Queues

2.Forms Type Table

3.Split Definitions

4.Finishing Definitions

5.Sort Definitions

6.User output queue

8. Work with E-mail senders

10.Start AUTO_FORM subsystem

11.End AUTO_FORM subsystem

12.Work with active subsystem AUTO_FORM

Option: __

F3=Exit F6=Display messages F12=Cancel

Beside the above definitions the function Overlay Selector can be used within the AFC definitions. The overlay selector is used when the spool data should be the “trigger” for the

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