On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Elmars Ositis wrote: > > I am looking into archiving as400 reports in a windows readable format.
Any particular format? Is .txt okay? Are you archiving them on a Windows machine or on a unix machine? > > Since I need to archive a few hundred reports per day, the current > mechanisms by idenfiying individual reports makes it difficult to identify > which output file contains which report. > What are the "current mechanisms"? > I noticed in the code for scs2pdf there is the possibility for scs2pdf to > save to a parsed report name, with the report name gathered from either the > first line of the report or (ideally) from the report file name in the > as400 queue? I'm not sure what you're saying that you noticed from the code of scs2pdf, since I'm sure we don't have code to either parse out a report name or to get the spooled file name... I don't think that the AS/400 even sends us a spooled file name. It thinks that we are a printer, and only sends the data it wants us to print. It doesn't know that we're a computer program that might be archiving the data. > > Is there a simpler way of doing this? > Personally, if I wanted to archive all of my reports, I wouldn't attempt to do it with lp5250d. I'd write a program that runs on my iSeries that uses the Host Print Transform API to transform my spooled file into a .txt file. At that point, I'd be able to retrieve all of the info from the spool, and I could name the file whatever I wanted. If you need it to be PDF, then I'd look at IBM's InfoPrint server, or I'd look into Brad Stone's SPLTOOLs. I haven't used either of these solutions, but I've heard good things about them. In any case, I'd try to do it in such a way that a program on my iSeries would be able to see the spooled file, retrieve it's attributes, and try to transform it, instead of trying to act like a printer. If you do decide to use scs2pdf to archive the reports, then you'll probably want to write a script that lp5250d can call. Have that script run both scs2ascii and scs2pdf on the data. Use scs2ascii's output to get the report name (doing the appropriate parsing). That's my 2 cents. _______________________________________________ This is the Linux 5250 Development Project (LINUX5250) mailing list To post a message email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/linux5250 or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250.
