Re: SPOOLED_FILE_DATA table function

[Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you have 5770-TS1 loaded (a freebie) you get this PDF generation for
free.  Ignoring it because it's a tool someone else wrote would be like
ignoring CPYSPLF because someone else wrote that.

On Thu, Jan 1, 2026 at 4:31 PM <smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Unfortunately, everyone jumped on the "underline" and not the "bold".  :(
> The case I am dealing with is they are using it for bold print.  If they
> want to highlight a value, they reprint the line (no advance) with only
> that value included and that specific value is bolded.
>
> The exercise was to take a normal spoolfile sitting in an OUTQ and
> reproduce it as a .pdf in an IFS folder for later download.  Yes, there are
> already tools to do this but you don't learn anything by using a tool that
> someone else wrote.  I was just trying to use the SQL "not so new" tools
> that are being created for us by IBM.  It seems this particular function is
> lacking some of the capabilities of CPYSPLF like FCFC information.
>
> However, now that I have retrieved the code and see it is doing the same
> CPYSPLF under the covers, I have to wonder...why bother other than to learn
> how to create my own function.
>
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