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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Scott Klement wrote:
I think they're looking for software that runs on the iSeries, takes a
spooled file, and converts it to a PDF suitable for e-mailing. Your
software, scs2pdf, doesn't do that. It runs on a Linux box, waits for data
on a print queue (well, technically, lp5250d does that part), converts the
results to a PDF document on the Linux box.
Problem is, you've completely lost contact with what the original spooled
file was at that point. That makes it hard to associate a particular PDF
document with an e-mail address & message.
You are absolutely correct. However, not all hope is lost. We have a
customer that routinely emails pdfs that were created using lp5250d. Here
is the relevant part of the configuration:
outputcommand = scs2ascii > /tmp/output.ps ; ps2pdf /tmp/output.ps
/home/user/pspdf.pdf
we have an instance of lp5250d running for each user that wants to email
these pdfs. The user simply moves the spooled file to their appropriate
out queue and then attaches the file that is created to their email
message.
We have another customer that needs to archive some large reports that are
created monthly. He needs to be able to search the archives as well, so a
searchable format is critical. He has three reports, so we created three
out queues each with a different name for the resulting pdf. This config
looks like:
outputcommand = scs2pdf> /home/samba/<reportname>-`date
+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S`.pdf
which results in the report name containing the date it was printed as
well.
There are many more possibilities. The outputcommand could pipe the
printed report to the mail program and it would be automatically emailed.
Or an automatic archive to CD could be created. Or it could be sent to
another machine via ftp or ssh. Or.... (you get the idea)
Part of me is interested in converting scs2pdf to something that could be run
on the iSeries to do this... and part of me is saying "What? Am I crazy? I
don't have time for the stuff I'm doing now!"
I've thought of doing the same thing. My thoughts have been to create a
special type of out queue that could send additional information to
lp5250d. I don't want to make an iSeries version of scs2pdf because quite
honestly, there is far less that I can do with the results on the iSeries.
James Rich
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