6 PSF/400 AFP Printing Using TCP/IP
This chapter provides configuration guidelines for AS/400 IPDS Printing over
TCI/IP. These guidelines are applicable for OS/400 version 3.7, 4.X and 5.X.
The examples of completed screens given are for OS/400 version 4.X and 5.X and
may contain some additional parameters not seen in version 3.7, these may be
ignored.
Requirements:
Before IPDS printing using TCP/IP can be accomplished, the following points need
to be checked:
• TCP/IP is installed and enabled
• IBM Print Services Facility/400 (PSF) is installed.

6.1 AS/400 Settings for Version 3.7, 4.X and 5.X

To configure IPDS printing on OS/400 3.7, V4RX and V5RX, it is necessary to
create a Printer Device Description. It is also highly recommended to create a PSF
configuration as this includes additional printer settings and e.g. media size
information used with matrix printers. These are created using the following
commands:
• CRTPSFCFG
• CRTDEVPRT

6.1.1 Creating the PSF configuration

On the AS/400 command line, enter a command in the form:
CRTPSFCFG PSFCFG(AFP/NETWRKPRT) IPDSPASTHR(*YES) RLSTMR(*SEC15)
TEXT('<Optional Text description> ')
Where:
AFP is the name an existing library in which the PSF configuration is to be
located and NETWRKPRT is the name given to the PSF configuration object. Any
existing library and a name of choice for the object can be substituted here but
the same values must be used in the creation of the Printer Device Description in
the next step.
<Optional Text description> is an optional text description for the PSF
configuration object.
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