Re: Send PDF to Browser

[Jan Grove Vejlstrup <jgv@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello Henrik

I wanted to optimize the performance. But I see, I have to go the IFS-way.

Thank you very much.

Jan

Am 16.06.2016 um 11:43 schrieb Henrik Rützou:
> As far as I know you have to store the spool-file in PDF in the IFS since
> you
> can't write spool files into a storage address.
>
> But what is the problem? You can just delete it after it is send to the
> browser.
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Jan Grove Vejlstrup <jgv@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I create a webservice that receives a document-ID as input and shall
> > deliver a PDF of the document back to the consumer. I generate a spooled
> > file of the document and use the attributes wscst(*PDF) and tostmf of the
> > printer-file to convert the spooled file to a PDF and store it in the IFS.
> > With my program I read the PDF from the IFS, put a appropriate header
> > before it and use STDOUT to send it to the consumer.
> >
> > Is there a way to do this without having to store the PDF temporarily in
> > the IFS?
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Jan
> >
> >
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