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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Wilmoth, Ray (COT)
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> We have an application which requires its report be generated
> as a pdf file. Currently, this is being accomplished by a
> java application running in WebSphere Application Server for
> z/OS. The customer is not happy with the length of time it
> takes to create the report. I have suggested that the report
> should be generated via COBOL in batch. Can a PDF version of
> this report be created using COBOL?
AFAIK, as of Enterprise COBOL 3.4 there is no "built-in function" to
produce output directly as a .pdf file. I'd guess a COBOL program to do
so could be written, but I wouldn't want to run it on our machines as
I'd expect it to be rather CPU-intensive.
-jc-
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