I think you're thinking of the OS/390 Softcopy Print feature. While BookManager books can be built from DCF source books, there are other flavors of BookManager Build that I think can build from other types of source material.
The OS/390 Softcopy Print feature, on the other hand, was for printing copies of books already in BookManager format and viewed the OS/390 BookManager Read. This involved supplying some parts of BookMaster, Fonts, PSF, and DCF which could print only the BookManager books without being enabled. This feature was available from OS/390 1.2 (or 1.3 maybe) till OS/390 2.10. The residual effect is that there is still Enablement checking which must now be used on DCF, but you no longer get the BookManager-only version supplied with the Softcopy Books. The Softcopy Print feature was discontinued. Trying to print from the BookManager format was never as good as having the printable format supplied as LIST3820, or LISTAFP, or PDF files. --Roger IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 03/05/2008 12:46:32 PM: > But isn't the z/OS Book Mangler stuff still in DCF format and authorizes > itself for printing? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
