PDF417
Installation
Guide
NeoMedia Technologies, Inc.
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MVS Installation
It is highly recommended that the installation of the PDF417 encoder be performed by a skilled
System Administrator with intimate knowledge of your MVS environment. The instructions that
follow are written in a general sense and will work on most MVS systems. However, due to the
wide and varied MVS configurations available, it is impossible to provide concise instructions for
all possible scenarios. Some of the JCL may therefore require customization.
Requirements
Under MVS, the PDF417 encoder requires the C Language run-time libraries. These libraries will
be present on your system if you have any of the following products installed:
•
LE/370 (Language Environment 370)
•
C/370 (C run-time libraries)
The encoder is supported for use with the following products:
•
COBOL II
•
COBOL 370
•
IBM COBOL
•
C Language
All of the JCL jobs use an address mode of 31 (
AMODE=31
). You will need to edit the JCL if
you are using the older address mode of 24 for the LINK step parameters. It is up to the user to
determine the settings for your environment and make the appropriate modifications to the
provided JCL.
After completing the installation, the PDF417 encoder routines will be available as distinct object
modules in a Partitioned Data Set (PDS) object library. Your object modules will need to be
linked with this PDS object. Although linking and running the encoder with products other than
those listed above may be possible, these types of configurations are not supported by NeoMedia
Technologies.
Preparing for Installation
The PDF417 encoder is distributed in IEBCOPY format containing the following three libraries.
NOTE: The following reference to Vxxxx is the PDF417 encoder version indicator. Replace
the xxxx with the appropriate version of the encoder that can be found on your distribution
media.
The first library,
NEO.PDFRSC.Vxxxx
, contains a variety of resources for the programmer,
including sample programs, AFP examples, JCL examples, and C header files.
The second library,
NEO.PDFOBJ.Vxxxx
, contains the C object modules that must be linked
with your own objects before being used on your system. When linking the PDFOBJ objects with
your own objects, you can either create a new load library or add the new executables into an
existing library. This will depend on your environment’s needs and conventions.
The third library,
NEO.PDFFNT.Vxxxx
, contains fonts for IBM AFP, Xerox, and HP PCL
printers. While all fonts are shipped with the NeoMedia Technologies PDF417 encoder, you may
not be licensed to use them. Please refer to your NeoMedia Technologies Standard Software
