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132 User’s Manual for InterForm400
®
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