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----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Rowe" <martin@dbg400.net> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:22 AM Subject: Re: User Options for WRKOUTQ? > On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 14:43, Mike Naughton wrote: > > I apologize if this has been covered before -- is there any way of adding > > user-defined options to the WRKOUTQ screen? Specifically, my boss is > > looking for a way to select a spool file, copy it to a data file, and then > > download the data file to his pc. His plan is to set up a generic data > > file and a generic download, so those pieces would be the same every time, > > but he wants to be able to look at his output queue and pick the report he > > wants to download. > > > > Has anyone done anything like this? > > > > Thanks very much, > > > > Mike Naughton > > Hi Mike My godawful expensive software will select all the files in an outq that match just about any combination of outq parameters you can imagine, copy each to a database member, download the member to a pc using the job, file, userdata, or other entry as a name, converting to ASCII of course, and on the pc side it will read the reports that don't have names and recognize them from context entries and rename them, append multiple files of the same name if you choose, then build indexes on data in the report if you want (invoice number, customer name, combinations of different fields) then put it in an archive you select (AP, AR, My favorite reports) cross index the indexes if you desire (all invoice numbers regardless of date, all customer numbers regardless of report or date) , then give you instant page at a time access thru green screen (5250, 3270, Unix, or telnet), as well as a windows client from anywhere on the net, or a web browser, and you can look up an invoice in under a second, select and reprint part or all of the report to a pc printer or an as/400 printer, include forms overlays, email as text, html, or pdf, apply a data extraction template and convert to spreadsheet, database, or html , filter out the data you want (balances over 5,000 and invoices more than 30 days old) , and link purchase orders to scanned invoices, program an invoice lookup screen on the as/400 that access the archive for a particular invoice, and does a couple of other things I have forgotten or don't even know about since the kids took over the programming, stores up to 160 million pages on a $300 pc hard drive, and costs half or two thirds of the competitors but I'm raising the damn price because people think it must be a yugo to be so cheap (and we are BETTER than all of the competition), and if you can think of something else it should do call me, I want to continually improve my product. Runs on Windows 88/SE as a server, or NT as a service (including on the attached PC processor of constantly changing name inside an AS/400 I mean iSeries which we know is really an RS/6000 pretending to be a System/38) And 13 years experience and 1,000 installs, mostly midrange but some mainframe and Unix. Download from anywhere, view anywhere, send anywhere. And if you want to get those reports to the PC faster than anyone else in the world, we have a SCSI tape emulator download product that is faster than any network you have ever seen (for large files, a lot of tiny files will beat it). But I agree sometimes a free or low-cost utility will do the job. It depends on how much you need, how much support you want, etc. (In case anyone wonders, I am being completely sincere - sometimes the free or shareware solution will do the exact job you want, and you should use it. I do.) ( I meant godawful expensive versus free, not versus the other nearly-complete solutions out there.) And for guys who don't need to do anything more than save spool files to tape and return them to the AS/400, SAVEOUTQ is a great product and real inexpensive, last time I checked. (That's somebody else's product.) I hear ROBOTREPORTS , which I think is much more expensive than SAVEOUTQ but does more stuff (I think) is a pretty good product also. And as a direct competitor to us, Metafile is an excellent product, I think it is more expensive and it lacks a couple of features we think can be important to some people. (We lack their full text indexing, which we think of as useful for smaller reports, but we will be adding that soon.) I add all this detail because I think perhaps your user may want to do something more with their request than just download the report. They might not. Brad Jensen LaserVault www.elstore.com
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