Indeed you can: we're working on a homegrown solution that does just that: pull the output from the spool with SDSF REXX then wrap the output in some simple XML and store it in PDSEs. HSM will manage the PDSEs--a control table determines what management class to use for each report. The resulting data is served via the web with the HTTP server with the MVSDS which can be secured via RACF so that you need access rights to the PDSE to be able to view the report. The web- front end is a JavaScript program that runs in the browser and is also served up by the HTTP server. So everything stays on z/OS and is managed on z/OS with native z/OS functions.
The major issues we've run into creating this: 1) Very, very large reports can be a bit problematic--we have one report that's somewhere around 1GB. Being able to handle that large of a report required making some compromises in that we only download the reports to the PC in 1,000 page chunks--which impacts local searching and printing. 2) This only works well for pure text reports, not AFP. Even so handling the control characters is a bit tricky as REXX SDSF doesn't currently tell you the CC method for each file on the spool, although you can find it by chasing through the relevant control blocks. 3) Reprinting on a local printer also required a little bit of JS work, but I think we have that working well now. We have not explored reprinting the whole thing on a MF-attached printer directly from the UI because it's not clear that we have that as a user requirement. We can easily re-transform back to a MF flat file though. So rolling your own is possible, but not without some work. Scott Chapman AEP > I think there are commercial product to do this, but with the HTTP >Server and REXX SPOOL interface you can do all >this things . > >Jim Marshall wrote: > >>We are big into TN3270 Telnet "Associated Printing" here and are getting to >>the point where thousands of users will be added who need to get output off >>the IBM JES2 Spool. Naturally the applications are not willing to modify >>anything as to where they might put this output except the Warm and Fuzzy >>JES2 Spool. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
