Alan, There is couple of AFP viewers available for windows. If you just want to view the AFP output as it gets printed, look in to "AFP Download Plus". That should allow you to package the spool, along with its requisite FORMDEF/PAGEDEF/OVERLAY and necessary data, and ship to remote location. Once on the remote side as a print file, you can use the AFP viewers to browse them.
There is no easy way to convert to Pdf without a software. If you have unicenter output management web viewer, you don't have to do any of those. You could just use it alongside with your View/Deliver. CA might be able to help you with that. Natarajan On 07/07/2010 05:51 PM, Starr, Alan wrote:
Hello list, We would like to facilitate PC workstation users viewing mainframe-generated reports that have been composed by PSF using Formdefs / Pagedefs. We have PSF but do not have ACIF or the Transform features (e.g. from AFP to PDF). We have VPS with a key for PCL but not PDF. There isn't any chance that either of the aforementioned features will be purchased. We have Adobe LiveCycle but I have no idea what conversion features we purchased (if any). We have CA-Deliver and CA-View, plus some workstation-based interface to CA-View called DocView (at a very old, outdated release level). Applications Development would prefer to see the composed AFP pages converted into a .pdf file that can then be viewed at a PC using Acrobat Reader. Failing that, it would be acceptable to somehow get the composed AFP (is that IPDS?) into a PC file that can be viewed using one of he many AFP freeware viewers. I have not been able to find a way to get PSF or VPS to output to a dataset / file rather than a printer. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
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