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These products work, very generally, by identifying some characteristic for
the report lines you want to convert, then substring them into fields.
Something like record IDs based on positional values in RPG I-specs, to
identify different layouts.

This kind of question opens up ideas of archiving and report distribution
and electronic bursting, yada yada yada, once you think beyond onesies and
twosies.

Other products that I've used include Winspool and Winview, etc., from RJS
Software (www.rjssoft.com). For some reason we (at a former job) went with
these instead of monarch - maybe the suite did what we wanted. There's also
stuff from Gumbo, I think. Help Systems has Robot/Report, and possibly
client pieces. (These were considered but generally too expensive for what
we would get.) And others, I'm sure.

At 09:59 AM 8/8/02 +0100, you wrote:
>We use this product for some things too (Monarch) and it is also relatively
>cheap.  We use it for things like spooled reports for customs that we can
>now send electronically.  Once you've set the template up you can use it
>every time you need to.

-snip-

> > --
> > I wanted to connect to an AS/400 spool file and take the text and place it
> > into certain fields. Is this possible. I have had consultants say that
>there
> > programs can in fact connect to spool files and puts the data into fields
> > that can be pulled out by a visual basic program. I just can see how
>someone
> > could idenitfy the text to know where to go.
> > Any help is much appreciated!!
> > Jon



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