Generating PDFs from text files

[russell.smith]

Product/components used and version/fix level:

Natural/Adabas

Detailed explanation of the problem:

We don’t have a great solution for converting Natural generated text based reports into PDF. Curious what other companies are using to generate PDFs?

Error messages / full error message screenshot / log file:

Question related to a free trial, or to a production (customer) instance?

[wolfgang.winter]

Which platform are we talking about, LUW or mainframe ?

[russell.smith]

Platform is mainframe

[Ralph_Zbrog]

Years ago I helped a z/OS client standardize on PDF reports using Unix System Services. Contact me offline (Forum messaging) if you would like more details.

//CNVPDF  EXEC PGM=AOPBATCH,
//             PARM='/afp2pdf       -j attributes=//DD:SYSIN 
//             -o //DD:PDFOUT //DD:AFPIN '
//AFPIN    DD DSN=&PRT.&GDG,DISP=SHR
//PDFOUT   DD DSN=&PRT..PDF,
//            DISP=(NEW,PASS),
//            RECFM=VBA,LRECL=32756,BLKSIZE=32760,
//            UNIT=MISCDA,
//            SPACE=(32760,(100,100))
//STDOUT   DD SYSOUT=*
//STDERR   DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN    DD DSN=&&PARM1,DISP=(SHR,PASS)

[russell.smith]

Thanks Ralph, I’m a newbie and a little embarrassed to say I can’t find the forum messaging!

[Ralph_Zbrog]

The link is under the “menu” icon (3 horizontal bars).

You can respond to the message I sent you.