RE: IBM Fax Support for AS/400

[Scott Mildenberger <Smildenber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

We use FastFax from Quadrant Software which runs on top of the IBM product.
It does what you want and a whole lot more and it easy to use.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Crosby [mailto:jlcrosby@fwi.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 2:34 PM
> To: Midrange Mailing List
> Subject: IBM Fax Support for AS/400
> 
> 
> Does anyone have and use this product?  We purchased it along with our
> RISC upgrade a couple of months ago and now I'm starting to toy around
> with it.  I'm not too pleased.  It doesn't seem to be intuitive.  I've
> been able to fax a couple of documents, but none too easily.
> 
> What I want to do is direct spool files that I want faxed to 
> a specific
> outq.  When a spool file arrives on that outq, I want the phone number
> to be retrieved from within the spool file, the fax sent, and 
> be able to
> see that the fax was indeed sent.  What I have found out so far is:
> 
> 1) There doesn't seem to be a way to retrieve the phone number from
> within the spool file.
> 
> 2) When I've sent tests 'manually' to our own fax, they alway come out
> portrait, even though the spool file is landscape.
> 
> 3) Information is cut off at the beginning and end of each line.
> 
> The only redbook is from May of 1996 and applies to 5798-TAY 
> V3R6, while
> the current version is 5798-TBY V4R4.
> 
> -- 
> -Jeff
> The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily 
> the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.
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