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RE: Forms printing

Mike,

It sounds like we can do what you want
AND we will give you some credit of what you spent on your
other forms product
Ours was certified 6.1 before 6.1 was ever released.

Our product is flat priced and licensed to your serial
number (not partitions or tier)
No upgrade fees
No increases in maintenance (fixed at 15% of purchase price)

You will be surprised at how low cost it would be for you to
switch over to our FormFlex software
Contact me offline and we can discuss in more detail if you
want.

John
DRV Technologies, Inc
www.drvtech.com




-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
Cunningham
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 11:47 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Forms printing

Still at V5R4 :(
Have a vendor package that will not certify at V6R1. In the
process of getting rid of that package.

I do use Webreport on V5R4 to do the same conversion and get
a PDF in the IFS which I am currently emailing as an
attachment.

I wanted to keep the PC out of the mix if I could.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Needles,Stephen J
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 10:24 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Forms printing

Mike...

Part of the answer might be to use the OVRPRTF command to
convert the output to a PDF on the IFS.

Follow up that process by using the QtmmSendMail API to
email the result to the user of your choice.

Then create a rule in your customer's email program to open
the email from specific user and open the applicable PC
application on receipt. From this point, however, the user
will need to actively choose to print the document.

Just thinking out-loud, but after the PDF is created on the
IFS, couldn't we use STRPCCMD to execute a command on the
user's PC (providing they are inside your network) and
instigate a string of PC commands to cause the print to be
routed to the PC/Network Printer?

Just food for thought.

Sample codelet for a CL to execute a PC command:

CHGVAR VAR(&PATH) VALUE('C:\Windows\Media\Windows +

XP Shutdown.wav')

CHGVAR VAR(&CMD) VALUE('rundll32 +

shell32,ShellExec_RunDLL ' *BCAT &PATH)

STRPCCMD PCCMD(&CMD) PAUSE(*NO)


steve

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
Cunningham
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 8:52 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Forms printing

Change of direction a little on the topic. But does anyone
know of a way to print a PDF document without user
interaction? I have an existing RPG app that writes a spool
file with an overlay and creates an AFP print file. I then
have a tool that will convert that spool file to PDF and
currently send the PDF to the user who has to open it and
print it (sometimes). The user wants to sometimes email,
sometimes fax and sometimes print and mail the form. How
they get the PDF in an email and forward to the vendor, or
email to our fax server as an email or open it and print it.
I would like to try and ask them when they request the print
what they want to do with it and directly email to the
vendor or the fax server or direct the PDF to a printer in
the user office. I know one option would be to get an AFP
capable printer for this office but the use might expand to
possibly dozens of other offices. We have a big Xerox
printer connected to a Sun server and on that we can FTP to
the server and it will automatically print the document. I
might also be able to setup a Windows PC to accept incoming
commands from the iSeries and FTP to the PC then send a
command to print the PDF to the printer but I really would
prefer to do this without that complexity added and just go
direct form the iSeries to the printer.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Charles Wilt
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 9:36 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Forms printing

Overlays are _ALWAYS_ full page...

If you want just pieces of pages, you need to create page
segments instead of overlays.

HTH,

Charles


On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:06 AM, PaulMmn
<PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Overlays can be full page bitmaps as described above, or
they can be
smaller pieces (ie your logo/letterhead) that you position
on the page
wherever you need it.  This doesn't need to be a full page
bitmap.
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