Turning off GOCA support on an AIX server

By default, the SAP client requests Graphics Object Content Architecture (GOCA) support. GOCA is an AFP data architecture used to represent pictures generated by computer. If your installation uses older printers (for example, 3900 printers as opposed to InfoPrint 4000 printers), GOCA support can cause the printers to print at less than rated speed. If your applications do not require GOCA support features, such as box shading, you might want to improve performance by turning off the GOCA support.

If your HP-UX or Sun Solaris client is connected to an InfoPrint Manager AIX server, go to the AIX server and use this procedure:

  1. Access the ipm_submit file that reside in the /usr/lpp/pd/bin directory.
  2. Using your AIX editor of choice, comment out the othertoptions="other-transform-options='-g'"; line by placing a hash mark (#) in front of the line.

You can also turn off this support at a later date, as described in Adding box shading values to printed output.

Parent topic: Configuring the InfoPrint Manager AIX server