POS. Cash Register on AS400. Updated and more Questions.

["Gary Segal" <GSegal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello again.
 
still need some more help. I am almost there. I am able to print to Receipt
printer from AS400, but  still can not open cash drawer.  
 
I have spoke to Wasp(Cash drawer manufacturer). They told me:

"ESC P should open the cash drawer.  In hexadecimal this is 1B70 and in decimal
it is 27112"
 
I tried to put in spool file as hex. No luck
 
Also spoke to IBM(Client Access support team). They said that there in no way to
trigger "ESC P" in Client access accept by putting it in WSCST(Work Station
Customizing Object), but they no longer support it therefore they can not let me
know how to do it. 
 
Does anyone has any knowledge what syntaxes do I have to put in my WSCST object
and where? Text file is pretty big. Please see attached.
 
Thanks a million
Gary Segal
Goebel Of North America 
609-730-8929 Direct
609-737-1980 Ext 8781
609-737-8685 Fax
215-431-7294 Mobil
 

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Original 
Hi guys, 

I need some advise on "Point of Sale" hardware. 

We have a store with two POS(Wasp) systems that are using Wasp software and
hardware. We have to upload/download inventory, convert data, etc.... It does
not work smoothly....... 

we have 2 stand a long Wasp Quick store systems: 

http://www.waspbarcode.com/point_of_sale/quickstore_pos_bundle_p.asp
<http://www.waspbarcode.com/point_of_sale/quickstore_pos_bundle_p.asp> 

We would like to write Cash Register software that will work directly with our
inventory files and merge into our existing applications. 

1. Is there any POS software with open source? 
2. What hardware is the best to use? 
3. How can I make iSeries(model 9406 V5R2M0) to communicate with a Wasp cash
register? 
4. Is there a special API's to open the cash drawer? 

Thank you in advance 

Gary Segal
Goebel Of North America 
609-730-8929 Direct
609-737-1980 Ext 8781
609-737-8685 Fax
215-431-7294 Mobil
GSegal@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:GSegal@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:GSegal@xxxxxxxxxx> >