IBM ends AFP support
IBM Drops Support for Advanced Function Printing Utilities
Last year it was announced that the 5770-AF1 IBM Advanced Function Printing Utilities will not be supported on IBM i V7R3 OS. While there is no indication that the AFP data stream and protocol are no longer supported, the AFP Utilities and the InfoPrint tool for designing pages will not be supported in V7R3. This would indicate that you can continue to print existing applications, but that you can not create a new form overlay or modify an existing one.
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