RE: Does anyone have a spool file output to text file example the y could share?

Joni-

Thanks very much for pointing out the Ops Navigator function - it turned out to
be what I was looking for all along.  It also saved me some time and pain in
trying to get this to work under Java it seems.

I had a suspicion that getting a clean text file from a spool file would be a
struggle (especially for me), judging by the forum on the toolkit site, and the
documentation.  I hope your efforts in working with Java turn out for the best.

Thanks to everyone else that gave me some suggestions too.

Regards,

Mike




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Mike,
I've been working on this for a few days. I am very new to JAVA so it has
been quite the experience. I as able to pull a spoolfile off with the AS/400
Toolkit using the PrintObjectInputStream and the AS/400Text Converter
classes.  The problem with that was once I got it into a text file there was
a lot of garbage in it too. That's when I realized it was printer control
characters it could not convert.
Sooo.. I was told the easiest way was to copy it to a physical file with
CPYSPLF and then you could put it to a stream file on the IFS with
CPYTOIMPF.  I am just now using the example in the AS/400 tool box for
sequential file access to get the file from the physical file instead of
using a stream. The example works but sends it to the system console -
should be easy to change to send it to a text file.
You can also use Operations Navigator and go into the AS400 -> basic
operations -> Printer Output and select your output and drag and drop onto
your desktop as a text file.
I know this may not be exactly what you're looking for but hope it helps.

joni wilson
JDA Software Group, Inc.
480.308.3094
joni.wilson@jda.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Seiler [mailto:mseiler@ki-inc.com]
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 11:51 AM
To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Does anyone have a spool file output to text file example they
could share?





Hi,

Does anyone on the listserv have a code snippet they could share, that
outputs a
 spool
file from the AS/400 to a text file on a client machine?

I saw the read spool file example on the toolkit pages at IBM, but they
don't include one where the file is transformed to a readable text file
on the client.

Thanks a lot for your time,

Mike




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