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Hi,
Last week I was asked to have pdf documents that are stored on IFS printed from a job on the iseries. After doing some research, I found two possible solutions:
1. Using the command PRTSTMF, made by Scott Klement
2. Using QSH:
cat -c /pdf/test.pdf | Rfile -wbQ -c "OVRPRTF FILE(QSYSPRT) DEVTYPE(*USERASCII) OUTQ(MYOUTQ)" -C "DLTOVR FILE(QSYSPRT)" QSYSPRT
Option 1 works perfect (thanks Scott!). It generates a spoolfile on the specified outq and the document gets printed as it should.
Option 2 (that should basically do the same IMO) also generates a spoolfile on the specified outq, but when send to the printer results in more than 100 pages with strange characters.
Even though I have decided to implement PRTSTMF in my application, I am still curious as to why option 2 doesn't work for me. The only thing I can think of is that somehow QSH converts the original data using my job's CCSID. FYI: the original document is CCSID 437, my job has 37. But why doesn't the same problem occur when using Scott's RPG code? I tried changing the CCSID of my job to 437 but that is not allowed for interactive jobs (and that makes sense).
Like I said, I have already chosen to use PRTSTMF, but I would really like to understand WHY the other option doesn't work. So basically my 2 questions are:
1. Why does RPG-code create a different spoolfile than the commands in QSH?
2. What am I doing wrong in the QSH option? I have read on the net that other people have used this option succesfully...
Thanks in advance for your suggestions / answers.
Regards,
Erwin Donker
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