Understanding common features
These InfoPrint Manager features are available on platforms:
| Features | AIX | Linux | Windows |
| Interoperability with other InfoPrint Manager servers | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Impositioning, that is, arranging pages so they will appear in proper sequence after press sheets are folded and bound | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| BSD and PSF device support systems | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| FST and LDAP security methods | Supported | Supported | Supported |
|
Supported | Supported | Supported |
| AFP | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| ASCII | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| DBCS ASCII | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| GIF | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| JPEG | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Line data (EBCDIC) | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| PCL (PCL 6 and earlier) | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| PDF Version 1.7 and earlier | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| PostScript Level 3 and earlier | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| TIFF | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| SAP ABAP and OTF | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| XML | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| DITROFF | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Adobe PostScript transform | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| PCL transform | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| XML transform | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Full event notification | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| InfoPrint Manager Notifications to enable client systems to receive messages from InfoPrint Manager server systems | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| The InfoPrint Manager Administration GUI for performing most administrative tasks | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| The InfoPrint Manager Operations GUI for performing operator tasks | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| InfoPrint Manager Web Interface | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| InfoPrint Select client for job submission | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| A powerful command-line interface to all InfoPrint Manager features | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) support | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| MVS Download Receiver for job submission from z/OS, OS/390, and MVS host systems | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| InfoPrint Page Printer Formatting Aid (PPFA) | Supported | Supported
Note: The InfoPrint Manager Page Printer Formatting Aid feature runs only on Windows operating system. However, the resulted form definitions and page definitions can be used on InfoPrint Manager for AIX as well. All resources created with PPFA on Windows need to be copied on AIX. |
Supported |
| The pdaccount command, which you can use to generate comma-delimited reports of print server data to be fed into spreadsheets | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Configurable transform support (through transform objects) | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| InfoPrint SAP Print Feature, which includes the SAP Output Management Support (OMS) and the sap2afp transform. | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| The IPP Gateway to allow you to print from an IPP client system to printers that are not IPP-enabled | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| E-Mail DSS | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Support for printers that use standard AIX printer backend programs (piobe and some versions of rembak) | Supported | Not available | Not available |
| PSF Upload TCP/IP | Supported | Supported | Not available |
| SMIT interface for performing tasks not Supported by the InfoPrint Manager Administration GUI, including PPO and security administration | Supported | Not available | Not available |
| Support for printers that use InfoPrint Managerpioinfo CUPS backend, InfoPrint Managerpiorpdm CUPS backend for Ricoh printers and other CUPS backends (socket, ipp, and lpd). | Not available | Supported | Not available |
| InfoPrint Manager Management interface for performing tasks not Supported by the InfoPrint Manager Administration GUI, including security administration | Not available | Supported | Not available |
| The InfoPrint Manager Management Console interface for performing administrative tasks not Supported by the InfoPrint Manager Administration GUI. The InfoPrint Manager Management Console also features graphical administration of the security Groups and Access Control List (ACL) | Not available | Not available | Supported |
| Interaction between InfoPrint Manager and the Windows print spool to expand InfoPrint capabilities | Not available | Not available | Supported |
| Distributed Print Facility (DPF) for host printing | Not available | Not available | Supported |
| Support for the Internet Print Protocol (IPP) to allow InfoPrint Manager to access a printer using a Uniform Resource Indicator (URI) string | Not available | Not available | Supported |
| The Windows gateway printer to allow job submission to without using an InfoPrint Manager client (The destinations appear as shared printers on the Windows network) | Not available | Not available | Supported |
| Customization of MVS Download Receiver without programming | Not available | Not available | Supported |