Re: Need suggestions for automating spool files to imaging input file

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can use CPYSPLF, but you lose blank lines in the output. You need to
use the CTLCHAR parameter, which will put stuff at the beginning of each
record to say how to format the report, how underlines & bolds are
handled, etc. Details can be found in the help text and probably in a
printing redbook or something.

This means you need a physical file with a record length, say, 4
characters longer than you report line length. And a program on the
other end needs to process these control character elements.

A number of products do this already, and it seems even a few free ones.

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Diana Hicks wrote:
>
> We will be implementing the OnBase COLD imaging module in a few months.  We
> would like to automate the transfer of certain AS/400 spool files to input
> into the OnBase system (located on a separate NT server) as an ASCII text
> file.  We'd prefer not to have any user intervention for this process.
> All suggestions will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> Diana Hicks
> Town of Jupiter
> dianah@jupiter.fl.us
>
> IBM Certified Specialist
> AS/400 RPG IV Programmer
>
> Please visit the Town of Jupiter online at http://www.jupiter.fl.us
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