RE: Bursting Spool Files/Emailing as PDFs

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx>]

Wouldn't is just be so simply nice to just be able to OVRPRTF FILE(xx) 
to(*PDF) pdffldr('/myroot/mypdf/beancount') and be able to do it IN THE CL!??

I think I asked for this several years ago....

Don in DC

At 09:14 PM 2/16/2006 +0000, you wrote:
> > I don't understand the problem you have with Gumbo's product.
> >
> > I'm familiar with Gumbo's product and other products, AFAIK Gumbo's
> > products work like everybody else's including IBM's.
> >
> > What is your issue?
>
> I love the product, but splitting a report requires either:
> - creation of a filter, a directory entry for the email address, and a
> report subscription to tie it all together, or
> - use of exit programs.
>
> I'm not maintaining filters and directory entries for 5,000+ customers.
> With other projects having higher priorities, it isn't an option to write
> / maintain exit programs.  What we need is a product where I can tell it
> where on the page to find the e-mail address, that I want it burst based
> on that address, and emailed as a PDF.  In speaking with Gumbo they've
> indicated that I could "roll my own", but that's just not an option--the
> company would rather pay somebody else for a finished product than give up
> my time....
>
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