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 Download report from iSeries to PC with proper page break
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I currently use Client Access Ooperations Navigator to download a report to my PC by dragging the output file onto my PC desktop. This correctly produces a report that I can print from my PC but it does not put in the page breaks that existed on the iSeries. Is there a way to keep the same page breaks from the iSeries in the PC downloaded report? I would like to do this without purchasing new software.

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ASKED: May 10, 2005  10:31 PM
UPDATED: October 24, 2010  10:22 AM
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The file you get with that method is a plain text file. Most reports are designed for Lanscape, change to landscape and increase the font to produce the desired page break. Courier 11 in Notepad works for standard OS/400 printouts.
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A “page break” results from a printer control character embedded in the printer data stream. Are you printing on the same printer hardware that the printer file device specifies?

Once you drag/drop it to Windows, it’s all converted to ASCII. Parts of a printer data stream such as control characters wouldn’t make much sense since there’s no way to know what printer codes to convert to.

If you want to print it, create a printer session and just route the spooled file to it.

Tom

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