Yes, SAS can produce a PDF file on the mainframe. It can include tables, text, and graphics. I usually mail the result to myself using the SAS email engine so I don't have to do a manual FTP (we don't have shared drives).
It can also produce an XML file that Excel knows how to read as a multi-sheet workbook, which is very useful. Excel is good at presentation, but you don't want to use it for data analysis. -- Jack Hamilton Management Information & Analysis - Analytic Information Services Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. 1950 Franklin Street, Oakland, California 94612 +1 510 987-1556 (KP tieline 8-427-1556) NOTE: This email document and attachments are covered by CA Evidence Code §1157 and CA Health and Safety Code §1370. NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are prohibited from sharing, copying, or otherwise using or disclosing its contents. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments without reading, forwarding or saving them. Thank you. Gary Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> 01/11/2008 11:03 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: [IBM-MAIN] Can a pdf document be create using COBOL? I am asking this because I do not know the answer and have not tried it... Do you have SAS? I know it can produce a PDF file, supposedly with ease using ODS. The part I do not know is, can it produce a PDF type file on the host. Worse case, have SAS write it to a directory on a workstation/LAN, I've used SAMBA for the mounting. Then the PDF file would be sitting there ready to do whatever... -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Warner Mach Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 1:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Can a pdf document be create using COBOL? I have played around with XMITIP and TXT2PDF to some extent. I have also discussed the DATA21 PDF product with one of the representatives of that company. . The problem with the XMITIP system (from our perspective) is that it does not have an 'overlay' feature (which we could really use for W-2s). The problem with the DATA21 product is that the PDF portion requires going to a PC as intermediary; which introduces security problems, along with political issues. . The ideal situation would be an add-on to XMITIP which would provide the free product with overlays and no need to use a PC ... One can dream. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.0/1218 - Release Date: 1/10/2008 1:32 PM <http://e-mail-servers.com/efd8f46c8641f67a92fcaf97810002f3worker.jpg> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
