Re: Content management solutions for spool files -- MIDRANGE-L

Isn't Robot another option?  It's probably got the largest customer base.  

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Subject: Re: Content management solutions for spool files

Document Management (now called Enterprise Content Management so it can cost 
more) is a broad topic, but once you have converted the spool file to PDF or 
TIFF you can store them in just about any DM/ECM system. There are some good 
inexpensive or even free ECM systems available. Once you have them in some 
system you might find that you need to print fewer copies of them. People 
might just look at them on line.

An advantage of converting them to PDF (assuming that it is a text PDF 
rather than a graphical PDF) rather than TIFF is that your DM system can 
search the contents of the PDF without having to do OCR first. As someone 
else has said there are a number of tools that will convert your output to 
either TIFF or PDF or just about anything else for that matter.

Jim Blizard
Software Sprockets, Inc.
(678)562 4117
http://www.softwaresprockets.com

On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 08:55:18 -0400, rob wrote

Well, at the core you could start by just saving spool files.  This, 
and data queues, are included in V5R4. SAVLIB LIB(MYLIB) DEV(TAP01)
 SPLFDTA(*ALL) QDTA(*DTAQ) SAVOBJ OBJ(MYOBJ) LIB(MYLIB) DEV(TAP01) 
SPLFDTA(*ALL) QDTA(*DTAQ)

IBM peddles a product called InfoPrint Server (5722IP1) that does 
all sorts of things.  Including making pdf files out of spool files, 
etc.

http://www.printers.ibm.com/internet/wwsites.nsf/vwwebpublished/ipserverhome_
i_ww


Every Tom, Dick and Harry publishes a utility to just convert spool 
files into PDF files.

IBM has a couple of things for "document management":
http://www-

306.ibm.com/software/info/contentmanagement/business/Documentmanagement/Docum
entmanagement/index.html

But when you search IBM's web site for document management you get a 
few hits. 1 - 10 of 2,926 results

I let the users know that we do NOT save spool files.  That they are 
to be aware that they could disappear in a DR situation.  And that 
we automatically purge ANY spool file that is over x days old - no

exceptions.


Rob Berendt
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Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com

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Content management solutions for spool files

What, if anything, are you using for content or document management
for your spool files?

We have some reports that are generated for a specific location 
(about 200 seperate locations)  and printed at the seperate 
locations. Many of these reports are not easily reproduced. We often 
get requests to reprint these. Most are saved in an outq for a while 
and then cleaned up later. We want to investigate more robust 
options for managing this.

Kyle
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