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Another thing to check is maybe you have already purchased a solution. Do you have a copy of Infoprint Server by IBM, 5722IP1?
I am pretty sure we do not, but how would I check? We are on V5R1.Historically we have loaded from OS/400 the same stuff that we had from earlier releases, because from time to time there has been a disk space crunch. For that reason we do not have a lot of the standard IBM help loaded.
Thanks for the great suggestions I am already doing this on a bunch of reports, mainly query/400.In some cases not going to print but to data file, such as most recent shipping history, aimed at particular customers. There was the Green Bar friendly version, then I got output that was Xcel-friendly, or whatever the end goal format was to be. This is working fine for simple lists that fit sideways in under 75 print positions.
However, I do have some Green Bar friendly reports in which the end recipients extremely like the original format, and do not want a dumbed down version that moves context to Excel-friendly columns, so I was looking into alternatives to how I had been trying to deliver the more complex reports or associated data.
There is one particular Green Bar report (we call it our production schedule) which eats 198 print positions sideways and has different formatted lines on each item, in which the number of lines is unlimited but for most items is 5-15. It currently has a number of needs for improved distribution, in which I still need to check whether all recipients need all the specialized line formats.
Some of the links suggested by other people in this thread ... I am revisiting those sites for this current interest. I had seen some of them before when looking into other co-worker special interests such as digitally signing delivery of purchase orders.
I am familiar with XML from the Blogsphere & the Evansville Indiana AS/400 user group plans to do a presentation on XML/400 3rd Wed in February.
Since you are already modifying the programs to get the desired output, why not have a two pass system? The first pass writes the data to an output file. The second pass can download, or print, the output file. Rob Berendt -- Group Dekko Services, LLC Dept 01.073 PO Box 2000 Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com Al Mac <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject AS/400 print to PC for almost free I have altered AS/400 reports to make them "Excel friendly" by removing sub-totals and control breaks, and making them simple lists, where the Excel user reinstates the breaks. I have shown several co-workers how to get such reports into Excel or standard text with proportional print, but I have not been impressed with our overall results, that I have seen. They work, but look horrendously amateurish, not appropriate to send outside the company. I also have reports in which it is a big deal for me to do that because the reports in question involve a bunch of lines on each item, where the number of lines is unpredictable and different format, using 198 print positions on green bar. I can put that report in e-mail to someone who has PC but no AS/400 and the result for them is unreadable. What I want is to get it into a format that is user-friendly for a PC user with zero AS/400 know-how, not connected to the 400, (and also ideally not need much PC know-how like what it is you do to printer setup to get landscape print on selected reports then put it back the way it was), to search report for some customer name or item # or whatever, zoom in on that section of the report so it is readable, reprint just a few pages of the total report, and have it legible on their PC, without having to mess with Printer Setup to get landscape and other alterations just for that report. I plan to look into Adobe Acrobat PDF onto my home PC to create the AS/400 reports, or perhaps get some equivalent results shareware onto my home PC. My home PC is Windows 98 which now talks to the work 400 via VPN over what is laughingly called "high speed" Internet connection. The recipients of this would include our sales reps who deal with customers, and are more often away from the office than in the city of our company, co-workers who need to send AS/400 to a variety of customers, vendors, and other trading partners. If I perfect a method after spending a few hundred bucks of my own money on adding stuff to my home PC, I think some (very few) co-workers might want to follow suit if I swear the hassle factor has been dramatically reduced, and the nature of the product involved is such that they can have like a 30+ day free trial to see if I am correct about the workability of the solution.. My management is utterly opposed to spending any money to get anything we not already have on our AS/400 model 170 V5R1, but at same time we want to maximize value from what we have. We own the AS/400 outright, and dropped software support years ago. We do have tech support contracts but they are 100% if we not call the tech support place, we do not pay a dime, not even an annual fee. At present, I am willing to spend a small amount of $ to install something on my home PC, if it will not further degrade my home PC security, which now uses a D-Link Router, various Norton products, a couple anti-spyware, and I still have security problems At one time I was willing to spend a small amount of my $ to buy shareware to install on company computer, but at the moment I am not so inclined. By small amount of $ I mean around $50-200 bucks budget. - Al Macintyre http://www.ryze.com/go/Al9Mac BPCS/400 Computer Janitor ... see http://radio.weblogs.com/0107846/stories/2002/11/08/bpcsDocSources.html -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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