RE: Printing to a file:

On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, "Matt Patee" <mpatee@abm.com> wrote:
> I am looking for something that will do this without intervention. Again,
> an example would be that if a user submits a report, instead of the end
> result coming out on a printer, it gets sent to a file on the IFS. This
> would need to be done with little to no intervention of a user. Idealy an
> outq that redirected spool files to a directory on the IFS. Is this
> possible? Obviously no cost is best, but if not possible, is there a third
> party software I could pay for?

It's not quite ready (still working on the documentation) but I have a
tool that will do most of this for you. It will only work for *SCS
spoolfiles though. I hope to have it finished over the weekend. It
does meet your no cost criterion, but there are low cost alternatives -
Brad Stone's SPLTOOL has a batch function. RJSSoftware do a spoolfile
converter that looks to do all you require as well (but I don't know the
price on this one).

If you want to look at my offering, see the Extras page on my site (see
.sig). You could drive the API from a program monitoring a *DTAQ attached
to an *OUTQ, or use another of the APIs to retrospectively pick up all
(or nominated) the reports on an existing *OUTQ(s). I have examples of
both methods.

Regards, Martin
-- 
martin@dbg400.net / jamaro@firstlinux.net
http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities 
Free test environment tools for the AS/400
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