On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:19:27 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems to me that a .PDF should qualify as an unstructured character
string of arbitrary length, as far as JES is concerned. Whatever utility
we
use to copy it could break it up into, e.g., fixed-length records of
(say)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/25/2005
at 07:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm not sure that convention, widespread as it is rises to the status
of standard.
Nor did I say that it did; in fact, I've been at shops where B was a
print class, although that breaks some of the IBM
that it did; in fact, I've been at shops where B was a
print class, although that breaks some of the IBM cataloged
procedures.
I was referring to:
Linkname: Re: Suppress carriage-control characters in SYSOUT?
URL:
http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0509L=ibm-mainD=1O=DP=160297
,BLKSIZE=1000,FILEDATA=BINARY
//*
//SYSUT2DD SYSOUT=*
Good luck,
Mark
Date:Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:20:28 -0500
From:Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Suppress carriage-control characters in SYSOUT?
Hi, All,
We're trying to copy a .PDF document into the JES2 spool (SYSOUT dataset
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/23/2005
at 03:43 PM, Kirk Talman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Used to be any file can be placed in SYSOUT=B and shipped anywhere as
a binary image.
There's nothing special about SYSOUT=B. By convention, B is typically
defined as a punch class, but that just means that
In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said:
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:39:38 -0300
In [log in to unmask], on 09/23/2005
at 03:43 PM, Kirk Talman [log in to unmask] said:
Used to be any file can be placed in SYSOUT=B and shipped anywhere as
a binary image.
There's
Hi, All,
We're trying to copy a .PDF document into the JES2 spool (SYSOUT dataset)
for later printing, but so far have been unable to suppress the insertion of
ANSI carriage-control characters as the first byte of each record. We've
tried coding DD SYSOUT=A,DCB=RECFM=FB but that didn't work as
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Subject: Suppress carriage-control characters in SYSOUT?
Hi, All,
We're trying to copy a .PDF document
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Hi, All,
We're trying to copy a .PDF document into the JES2 spool (SYSOUT
dataset) for later
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Subject: Re: Suppress carriage-control characters in SYSOUT?
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On 9/23/2005 10:20 AM, Chase, John wrote:
We're trying to copy a .PDF document into the JES2 spool (SYSOUT dataset)
for later printing, but so far have been unable to suppress the insertion of
ANSI carriage-control characters as the first byte of each record. We've
tried coding DD
In a message dated 9/23/2005 9:48:50 A.M. Central Standard Time,
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If that's the case, then we'll just have to code an exit (writer?) to strip
the cc character when sending the .PDF to a printer.
With Info print can use the PDF2AFP transform? If you've got
Info
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Subject: Re: Suppress carriage-control characters in SYSOUT?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Walt Farrell
[ snip ]
You cannot copy
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gray, Larry - Larry A
I was not aware of printers understanding the PDF format.
Some print driver must convert the PDF into something usable
by the printer. I believe AOP can print a PDF, but it
converts it to
In a message dated 9/23/2005 1:59:53 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It seems that that can't be done if the target is a SYSOUT dataset.
Seems like lpr ought to be just the ticket?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Walt Farrell
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You cannot copy a .PDF file to SYSOUT, John. You would
need to have a PDF reader
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edwin Philbrook
Why not -
Advanced PDF2TXT (PDF to Text) free download. Convert PDF to Text ...
or PDF2WORD
or am I missing the point?
We don't want to convert it -- we want to use the spool only to store
Used to be any file can be placed in SYSOUT=B and shipped anywhere as a
binary image.
If the reader (called a writer) that removes it from the spool knows
how to rebuild the records from 80 byte segments, problem solved. This
technique used to be used to connect devices such as plotters and
On Sep 23, 2005, at 1:29 PM, Gray, Larry - Larry A wrote:
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Seems to me that a .PDF should qualify as an unstructured character
string of arbitrary length, as far as JES is concerned. Whatever
utility we
use to copy it could break
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