Re: RE: Making command parameters off-limits

["Mike Naughton" <mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This seems a great idea to me (maybe partly because my boss wants to do
this here, to cut down on the huge volume of paper we generate for no
apparent reason!).

I'll just add that (especially if you're dealing with text-only spool
files), there seem to be a number of tools out there to do this (meaning
you don't necessarily have to write  your own).  . .  .

hth

MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com writes:
>Alan:
>This may not be helpful, since you are asking a specific questions and I
>am
>going to change the subject a bit.  About 2 years ago we had a client that
>ran nightly batch reports, printed a zillion (OK maybe not quite a
>zillion)
>pages of reports and distributed them.  Same old story, some did not get
>delivered, some got lost, some needed reprinting.  So we worked with them
>to
>devise an intranet site, they call it their "workbench".  They defined
>many
>critical pieces of data that were important on a daily basis (including
>many
>of the daily reports).  We wrote some code to convert the spool files to
>HTML and store them on the IFS.  Now is someone needs a report, they go to
>the Workbench, click and find the report, then find the date they need and
>get the report in their browser.  If they need to print all or part of it,
>they can do that too.  Sure saved lots of trees, as well as paper costs.
>cjg
>
>
>Carl J. Galgano
>EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
>550 Kennesaw Avenue, Suite 800
>Marietta, GA  30060
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Mike Naughton
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Judd Wire, Inc.
124 Turnpike Road
Turners Falls, MA  01376
413-863-4357 x444
mnaughton@juddwire.com

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