Comments on: store PDF in data base http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/store-pdf-in-data-base/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:45:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: gilly400 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/store-pdf-in-data-base/#comment-55716 gilly400 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:09:23 +0000 #comment-55716 Hi,

We use PKZIP to zip .pdf files into separate members in a file. Works fine.

Regards,

Martin Gilbert.

]]> By: buzzwords http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/store-pdf-in-data-base/#comment-55710 buzzwords Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:18:56 +0000 #comment-55710 Dave, I’d be interested in seeing how you did that. Did you use the C API’s to access the file on the IFS? How did you get the file into a blob field?

]]> By: davefulton http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/store-pdf-in-data-base/#comment-55694 davefulton Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:42:41 +0000 #comment-55694 Agree with the last post, but it can be done. I did a simple test using a sqlrpgle program to write the pdf file out as a blob record in a DB2/400 file. Works fine, but couldn’t really think of what to do with it when there.

]]> By: buzzwords http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/store-pdf-in-data-base/#comment-55687 buzzwords Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:45:45 +0000 #comment-55687 We have a homegrown document storage system. We store the document images on PC server drives which are mapped (or ‘mounted’) to our as/400 through the QNTC facility on the IFS. We have native db2/400 tables that contain indexes and locations of all document images. This setup allows us to create, email, fax, etc, documents via RPG programming (and some 3rd party tools – Gumbo Software, FAX/400, etc). If your requirement is fairly simple you could create a directory on the IFS to store PDF documents, and also maintain each file’s location in a field of an as/400 data file. iSeries Network Neighborhood (or whatever they’re calling it these days) allows one to map an IFS directory within Windows, and is helpful to both developers and users when managing PC-type files on the IFS. Use the WrkLnk command from the green-screen.

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