Comments on: iSeries and PDF

By: mcl

mcl — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:34:01 +0000

We have an app we “wrote” in-house to generate a PDF from a SPLF and then email the PDF.

Found all of the source on the web. Had to tinker around a bit with it but it works well.

If you don’t have time to fiddle with it, go for the third party stuff.

regards
Mike

By: tjgm88

tjgm88 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:43:48 +0000

Thanks Guys. Much appreciated. Have started investigations of some of the suggestions.
Cheers!

By: woodengineer

woodengineer — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:24:00 +0000

I agree with lovemyi regarding SpoolMail. We too have been using it for over five years. Works great. Easy to implement. Reliable. Reasonably priced. Can’t get much better than that in the world of software.

By: yorkshireman

yorkshireman — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:43:41 +0000

There are a number of 3rd party add on’s that will do this. Google around and search the forums.

You can also make your own PDF from RPG – a PDF is, after all, only a data file containing particular values. Source is on the web.

If you are using Createform, then you will already be able to do all that you want. Generate the PDf as normal, and send it to a monitored outq, then have your monitor pick it up and send is as email, whilst archiving it as a master copy somewhere safe. Be sure you can always resend the origianl when the email fails or has been ‘lost’ etc.

Used to do this stuff all the time for a major transport company. Building the forms is a pain, unless they seriously improved the product.