As Salva said the logo itself is likely a page segment. If you browse the AFP resource itself, it probably has some lines at the top that will identify the tool that made it. It sounds like to change the logo, they would change the image, replace the page segment member with the new logo with the same name, and then you might not need to change overlay, pagedef, or formdef at all. If the user has IBM support contracts to allow for support for usage or "how to" questions, the best thing would be to open a case so IBM can help with access to the data.
If he can't determine or use the original tool for some reason, he could try downloading the AFP Printer Driver from this web site: https://dl.ricohsoftware.com/downloads/aa9a248e-101c-4aa6-b109-1cf7403f3b4f Yes, that's a Ricoh site. The old IBM Printing Systems Division is part of Ricoh nowadays. With that printer driver you can configure to "print" any image on Windows into an AFP page segment. Then the binary page segment file can be uploaded to z/OS. If it needs to go into an MVS library you can use AFRREBLK (part of PSF) to turn the file into a library member. --Roger On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 11:10 AM Alan Altmark <[email protected]> wrote: > Asking for a friend who has been tasked to change the logo that is printed > on the reports being generated by Infoprint on z/OS. They have a PAGEDEF > and FORMDEF that contains the logo, but the person who originally set that > up is long gone. He has familiarity with Infoprint and how to get the > reports generated and all that, but not with how the xxxxxDEFs are created. > > My instincts (as someone who did a lot of PSF-related stuff back in the > late 80s) is that this was the job of PPFA. You could upload a JPG, > one-page PDF, or GIF (or whatever), and tell PPFA to build the PAGEDEF and > FORMDEF for it. Blah blah blah <insert technical description> blah blah > blah. Right. > > My familiarity with PSF was restricted almost entirely to VM, and that > back to the late 80s when I was doing PSF/VM testing on a new release of > VM. I think I may have used PPFA exactly once during that time. > > If it *is* PPFA that deals with this, and assuming the source files for > the current pagedef/formdef are still extant, what kinds of files should he > be looking for and where would they most likely be? If the files aren't > there, can PPFA read in the existing xxxxDEF objects so that he can modify > them without starting from the very beginning? > > Yes, I could tell him to RTFMs, but there's a lot of FMs to R and I'd like > to point him in the right direction so he can start digging. > > Thanks for your help. > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Consultant > IBM Lab Services > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
