Re: Bursting Spool Files/Emailing as PDFs

On 16/02/06, Lopez, Andrew <alopez@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We have been using Gumbo's Spoolmail and Report Manager to do this.
> Management now wants us to handle a large number of reports, emailing to
> an address listed in the spool file itself.
>
> Gumbo can do this with the use of exit programs, but I've been asked to
> find a solution that supports this "out of the box".

Hi Andrew

User written exit programs, or ones Gumbo have to do? We use
CoolSpools[1] which does bursting (based on data found inside the
spoolfile) but that too uses exit programs to process the resultant
pdf segments. The exit program can be very simple and there are plenty
of options for extracting data out of the file. We've been using it
successfully for quite a few years now (we started trials with the
original beta, and it's now at version 5).

They also do an email product, Communique[2], that lets you send
direct, as long as the iSeries SMTP server is running. The two
products work together, though for bursting you'd do the emailing
separate, as it'd be based on recipients from inside the report.

I'd be happy to send the code & wrappers we use if you do decide to
give it a try.

Regards, Martin
[1] http://www.ariadnesoftware.co.uk/CoolSpools.htm
[2] http://www.ariadnesoftware.co.uk/Communique.htm
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