RE: Printing from IFS

Dear Simon and All,



Thanks a lot for your help and for the very valuable info.

We have plain text files. Sometimes we have files with logos and signatures as well (they are not PDF).

I will try the below solutions and get back to you with questions or results.

Many thanks and best regards

Dina

From: shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Printing from IFS
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:07:47 +1000


On 30/06/2010, at 2:20 AM, dina ramzy wrote:

Is is possible to print an IFS file to AS400 network printer ?

You can spool the file and then assign it to whatever outq/printer you
want.

If yes, how can this be done? How can the IFS file be converted to
spool file or assigned to the printer queue ?

A number of ways:

1) OVRDBF STDOUT QSYSPRT
QSH CMD('cat the-stream-file-path')
DLTOVR STDOUT

2) FTP the file to QSYSPRT
put the-stream-file-path /qsys.lib/qsysprt.file

3) Redirect the file to a "print" utility within QSH
cat the-stream-file-path | Rfile -w /qys.lib/qsysprt.file


If the file contains more than just plain text then the example at the
foot of the Rfile documentation may give you a means to deal with that.

4) DSPF the-stream-file-path
Type PRINT in the Control field and press Enter

5) Copy the stream file to a database file/source member and use
normal OS/400 print facilities.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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