Are you intending to perform the entire document creation process on z/OS, editing the content by perhaps using some GUI based product, or perhaps using some form of a "batch" type of a product that uses markup tags (something similar to the old IBM BookManager product)? Whatever the tool, if that tool can output AFPDS, but cannot output PDF, you could use IBM Infoprint to "transform" the AFPDS to PDF.
It also might be the case that one of the many Virtual Printer programs has been ported to the z/OS Unix environment. Such a program could use the JES SAPI subsystem interface to gain access to SPOOL resident datasets and perform the transformation from a variety of data stream formats to PDF. I haven't looked for such a program, but my guess is that this has been done. Bob
