Why Migrate Legacy Impact Print to AFP Impact Print?
Hello and welcome to AFP Tech, a new column here at OutputLinks. This column will deal with the technical and implementation aspects of AFP. This column is for the person who, ultimately, needs to make this stuff work and so we heartily welcome your comments, questions, or suggestions for topics of interest for future articles. Your humble columnists are Paul Kiel & Dave Webber, each with decades of real world HVTO experience. The problem Today there is a situation that is so common you could almost call it an epidemic, yet it remains mostly ignored in HVTO discussions. It’s hidden, almost covert, and yet so wide spread you could say that the only way to be sure you won’t deal with it sometime in the future is because you’ve already dealt with it sometime in the past. This is the scenario: You’re getting a new mainframe but it’s discovered that new central processing units do not come standard with S/370 channel adapters. Sure, you can order them if you really want them – for several t