RE: Attaching Spooled Files to Email

There are packages available - some cheap, some not - 
Brad Stone has one that will do this as PDF docs, then you
keep your page breaks.

We purchased a different package that only creates PDF files,
and then did some things in-house to e-mail those (most packages
will do it all for you) It just depends on your budget and how 
much you want to do in-house.  

If you are "really" ambitious, and depending on your OS level,
you could even create your spool files as PDF docs right out of
the gate.  (I am most likely off on this, but I believe it became
available on V5R1 with AFPDS/psf400 "bundle" - I have not used, or
looked into yet, too short of time, and no urgent need so I could 
have even mis-understood what feature needs to be installed for
this to work, but I do recall reading about it)

hth

Mark





-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tammy Ayala
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:34 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Attaching Spooled Files to Email


> We are an AS400 shop and would like to distribute reports generated on 
> the AS400 to managers via email.  The issue we are having is that when 
> we copy a spooled file to a text file, the page breaks are lost.  This 
> is not really an issue if the text file is being viewed online, but if 
> the manager chooses to print the file out, it doesn't print properly 
> because of page breaks. 
> Are there any midrange clients distributing reports from their AS400 
> via email?  If so, do you have any suggestions that might possibily 
> help us with this issue?  Are there any utilities that you might 
> recommend to help?  Thanks in advance for any input you might have.
>
> Tammy Ayala
> Valley Health System
> (909)652-2811 Ext. 5963   


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