text: **14.1 Introduction to Content Manager OnDemand Distribution**
  **Facility**
  
  Before Content Manager OnDemand version 9.5, two report distribution components were 
  available: 
  
  (cid:2) OnDemand Distribution Facility for z/OS 
  (cid:2) Report Distribution Facility for Content Manager OnDemand for Multiplatforms 
  
  Both of these components contained certain strengths and weaknesses. In V9.5, the 
  strengths of both of these components were merged into a single component named 
  OnDemand Distribution Facility (ODF), which offered the following advantages: 
  
  (cid:2) It runs on all Content Manager OnDemand platforms. 
  
  (cid:2) It can run on a separate platform from where the Content Manager OnDemand server is 
  installed. 
  
  (cid:2) Its operation can be monitored through a new graphical monitor, the OnDemand Monitor. 
  
  (cid:2) It includes transform support where Content Manager OnDemand can transform content 
  from one data type to another data type before the content is sent as part of an ODF 
  distribution. 
  
  This chapter describes ODF V9.5. For any new installations (on z/OS or AIX) before version 
  9.5 of Content Manager OnDemand, we suggest that you install ODF. 