I will assume that you want to generate PDFs on z/OS and not use a PDF reader under ISPF :-)
A very popular tool, and the most popular Java framework for generating PDFs (including the common use case: merging PDF templates with data) is iText http://itextpdf.com/, which is free/open source. Here's a link to a white paper on our website that includes free/open source Java program for generating PDFs from data file (CSV) using iText. You could run this anywhere, but we include instructions and JCL for running this on z/OS Java under the IBM JZOS batch launcher, or offloading the processing to a Linux box/blade/IFL using our Co:Z Hybrid batch toolkit. (generating PDFs is quite resource intensive, so there are some very good reasons to offload it) http://dovetail.com/products/casestudyitext.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > WHAT product? Adobe has dozens. > > Let's start from a statement of the problem. What function would you like > to > implement on z/OS? > > Reading a PDF? Creating a PDF? On traditional z/OS or USS? > > Here's a start, if you can live with creating a PDF in USS Java: > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ > > The Adobe PDF creation library claims MVS support: > > http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/webseminars/PDFL_WebSeminar.pd > f > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Ron Wells > Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 11:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Fw: Adobe-PDF > > Have asked Adobe as well...if they have a z/OS install of product ..heard > it > is available but through another Vendor they work with.. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
