Used to be any file can be placed in SYSOUT=B and shipped anywhere as a
binary image.
If the "reader" (called a "writer") that removes it from the spool knows
how to rebuild the records from 80 byte segments, problem solved. This
technique used to be used to connect devices such as plotters and
typesetters directly to mainframes. I remember a PC board from
BarrSystems that connected to mainframe as JES workstation doing this.
pup
"Chase, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>9/23/2005 2:59 PM wrote
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gray, Larry - Larry A
>
> I was not aware of printers understanding the PDF format.
> Some print driver must convert the PDF into something usable
> by the printer. I believe AOP can print a PDF, but it
> converts it to a format that the printer can understand.
Indeed, the .PDF is "just another bytestream", like Postscript, AFP, IPDS,
PCL, etc. It just seems there should be a way to use the spool to "hold"
it
(in whatever-size "chunks" is convenient) without having ANSI
carriage-control characters prefixed onto each "chunk". I.e., we're not
trying to turn the .PDF file into the equivalent of a "COBOL Print File";
we're trying NOT to do so.
It seems that that "can't be done" if the target is a SYSOUT dataset.
-jc-
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