The TXT2PDF function of XMITIP is from Leland Lucius and if available here: http://homerow.net/rexx/txt2pdf/
It would wonderfully on linemode output with carriage control. You can add overlays, compression and the Adobe level of encryption. In honor of Rube Goldberg, we have an application which starts as a TSO user running an ISPF application to fill in a form for some database selections, and output destination. That data is saved in a database, that is queried by a separate application every 5 minutes to build a job from each data entry and submit it to z/OS. That job runs a cobol program to select that data from a database, create a linemode report that is normally sent through JES2 to RSCS on z/VM where it is then routed to a Postscript printer in landscape mode. If the TSO user is not in the building with the normal printer, an alternate destination can be set were the output is routed to a non-existent node on z/VM. RSCS has an exit process that notifies a service machine for all invalid destination nodes. I wrote rexx program (RXSERVER is the base of this) to transfer that output to the SVM, read it into a disk file, run TXT2PDF and email the PDF to a user or list of users defined by that unknown node as a nickname in a NAMES file. /Tom Kern David Boyes wrote: > On 12/17/09 2:58 PM, "Gentry, Stephen" <stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com> > wrote: > >> In some of the products I¹ve come across when I googled, ghostscript is >> mentioned. Do you think ghostscript will be required to get this all to >> work? > > Something has to interpret the PostScript to a raster that can be > transformed into a simple form PDF. Ghostscript is the usual culprit. > > Another way to do it would be (if you have a RSCS license for the TCPNJE > functions) to use the NJE Bridge code and set up a custom file processing > exit on a Linux system. SENDFILE the PS file to the designated userid on the > Linux system, and the Linux system runs ps2pdf and sends you the PDF in your > RDR. You just run WAKEUP and hang out until the file arrives. Very CMSy. > > You could write a simple NQS client for CMS. That would be handy all round. > We can talk off list about getting you a copy of NQS for Linux on Z. > > I also seem to remember that Lionel Dyck had a version of XMITIP that ran on > VM and provided some PS2PDF function. I don't remember whether VSE2PDF runs > on VM any more -- Tony? > >> Another thing I tried but could not get it to work was to set up a BFS area >> in >> VM, define that area to NFS, have a zLinux mount the NFS mount-point and run >> ps2pdf (on zLinux). Something kept getting lost in the translation. > > You're probably getting bitten by line end processing because PS looks like > text. Make sure you specify that PS and PDF files are binary by default. >
