RE: Archiving AS/400 Reports to PC files

[Alan Schuetze <aschuetze@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Leo,

Ethical warning: I work for a company that makes a possible solution for
you.

You have many choices out in the market place, dozens.  We, along with our
competitors can automatically capture your spooled files and archive them.
What you can do with the reports after you capture them is where the
differences come into play. 

CD burner for long term storage?
I'm still not sold on this type of a solution.  I've been unable to find
data on the shelf life of a burned CD.  Lots of documentation and white
papers on stamped/production CDs but burned CDs use a different technology.

Anybody with any info on burned CDs?

Regards,

Alan Schuetze
Magellan Software
Integrated Content Management and Workflow
Phone: 949-784-8000
Fax: 949-784-8200
www.magellan.com <http://www.magellan.com> 


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Leo Lefebvre [SMTP:leo@tug.on.ca]
        Sent:   Tuesday, May 09, 2000 12:03 PM
        To:     Midrange-L
        Subject:        Archiving AS/400 Reports to PC files 

        Here is our situation:

        - We have many reports produced on the AS/400 which don't need to be
        printed but must be saved somewhere for "possible" reference
        - Today, we have a procedure that copy those reports to tape.
        - I have not seen a CD Writer on AS/400 mdel 170 (am I way out?)
        - I would like to save those reports on CD, so I would have to
transfer
        them to PC files to eventually move them to CD.

        1) Can it be done easily?
        2) Can I save them in a format (like Rich Text Format)  I could,
then,
        "print" to Adobe (ie .PDF) files which we could view with the
Acrobat
        Reader and print them if needed (from any PC)?
        3) Above scenario is only a suggestion, if you have better ideas,
let me
        know, please!

        --

        Leo Lefebvre
        President
        Toronto Users Group for Midrange Systems
        Visit our home page at <http://www.tug.on.ca>
        Ph: (416) 606-5960   ---   Fx: (416) 495-0100
        mailto:leo@tug.on.ca


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