RE: AS/400-based imaging

What you may be looking for is the IBM 3995 Optical Drive.  There are a   
few AS/400 software packages out there that support the 3995.  I suggest   
you research as a few of them.  One of them is located here =>   
http://www.realvisionsoftware.com .  I've seen a recent demo and it has   
substantially improved.  The procedure that you describe is remarkably   
similar to the tools' actual operation.  No PC required.   Hope this   
helps.

Eric Kempter
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
E-Mail: EKempter@smsocs.com


 -----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-owner [SMTP:midrange.com!midrange-l-owner@mcs.com]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 1997 9:54 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L
Subject: AS/400-based imaging

I'm looking for ways to stop printing some 700-odd pages per day, and
think an CD-based imaging system would work nicely. However, I'm not
that familar with imaging and am hoping someone here could give me
some insight.

=46or me, the perfect imaging system would be AS/400-based, with an
internal, addressable CD burner, multi-session. I would create a
special output queue, say STORECD, and run a program to process all
files (RDY status?) in that outq, and index them, compress them, etc.
and store the files on CD. This operation would be perfomed once each
day. I'd like the software to be '400 based, with a search index.
Retrieval would be on screen or on paper, with the file's original
settings, of course. If necessary, I could convert, on demand, a
spoolfile to text to send via email or whatever.

Some of the systems I have heard of, for instance, METAFILE, require a
PC, which means I would have to transfer the spool files to PC and
possibly lose their attributes (I don't know this), and the CD is PC
readable, not necessarily AS/400 readable.

Does anyone know of AS/400 native imaging hardware/software solutions,
and how much?

Thanks in advance,

Loyd Goodbar
MIS manager
Las Vegas Casino
Greenville, Mississippi
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