> Actually, we want outsource the printing jobs to other vendor and they > require only arp format that why we want keep a AFP copy from our batch job
You again write "arp" and not AFP. Is this intentionally? If so, I fist have to understand what "arp" is? In the meantime, I continue to think we're talking about AFP. In AFP, the datastream which contains the documents to be printed does not normally contain all the resources required to print the data. Fonts, overlays, page segments, from definitions are usualy kept in AFP resource libraries. You either setup some processes to send those resources to your partner, or you licensse the IBM ACIF utility to combine the datastream and the resource into a portable datastream. To capture the original data stream, you simpla change the DD statement in the jobs generating the datastrems. I assume the jobs currently write to JES (//anyname DD SYSOUT=..). Change this to //anyname DD DISP=(NEW,CATLG),DSN=your.dsn.goes.here,RECFM=VBM,LRECL=32756. You teh have the original datastream in a data set on your system, which will also be your copy to keep. Next, if required, ACIF this dataset. Next, send either the original or the ACIFed data set to your vendor. You can do this with any file transfer method tha both end support. Just make sure the transfer is *binary*" in any case. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
