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The CAAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a high priority requirement that is important to be addressed. .PNG is such a prevalent image type that the IBM i community does indeed need to have it in the HPT support with the AFPRSC PRTF keyword, similar to the .GIF support which has already been provided. Current work-around is for a .PNG to be converted to a .GIF.
Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community, and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac
For more details about CAAC's role with RFEs, see http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/i-Can/May-2017/COMMON-Americas-Advisory-Council-%28CAAC%29-and-RFEs/
Nancy Uthke-Schmucki - CAAC Program Manager
We recognize the value of providing output support for this popular image format.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - Print
Operating system - IBM i
Source - Other
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - Languages - RPG
Operating system - IBM i
Source - Other
Tosh, I agree - this is an issue with printing that I have run into in our work, as well. General AFP support for PNG has been around for many years now, we need it in HPT on IBM i using the AFPRSC keyword - ah, that is the RPG connection, right?
I also see that the TIFF transform does not handle PNGs - that is also needed. I'll see about putting in an RFE for that, but I hope it also makes it into consideration of this RFE.
Wonder if this is really an RPG enhancement?
RPG will essentially use functions that HPT supports or otherwise IBM printing APIs expose.
I really feel this RFE is mis-categorized.