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Workspace Printsw
Categories Print Services Facility
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 28, 2022

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New command to display AFP Download Plus parameters

Currently there is no way to check/verify the parameter values for the AFP Download Plus server/FSA. In order to check/verify that the AFPDP parameters are set appropriately and as expected, it would be helpful to have a DISPLAY command that would show all of the parameters and what their current values are set to.


To set these AFPDP parameters, there is a PARMLIB concatenation order, as well the actual IBM-supplied default values. Looking through the PARMLIB members, as well as needing to check the (possibly outdated) manual for the IBM defaults, it is not currently possible to know for sure what the actual execution time parameter values are. Adding a new DISPLAY command would allow the installation to check/verify that the AFPDP configuration parameters are set as expected. This is especially important when trying to debug an issue, but it is also useful simply as a “health check”.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Feb 14, 2024
    The requested function has been delivered with OA64536 for PSF 4.7
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 25, 2022
    ..IBM recognizes the value of this function and plans to incorporate it in a future release.
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 25, 2022
    Received the following response via a direct message form Larre.

    Thanks for the question. For this Idea, I'm specifically asking for the AFPPARMS, so your assumption was correct. The PRINTDEV parameters are available from JES (and SDSF??? or EJES, in our case), so there's no need to replicate that information here.

    I also didn't specify, but I would be perfectly happy with just one command syntax that would just spit out *all* of the AFPPARMS parameters. It would be nice to be able to display each one, but that's probably a lot more work, and at the end of the day, I would rather just be able to display all of them instead of having to display each specific parameter. Now??? if there was a display command where I could display each individual parameter as well as an ???ALL" keyword that would display them all, that would work, too.

    Please let me know if you have any additional questions! Thanks!
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  • Guest
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    |     Aug 8, 2022
    Larre,
    Which parameter(s) are being requesting? We assume it is AFPPARMS or do you also need both AFPPARMS and PRINTDEV parameters?
    Regards.

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