Re: ibm i 7.1 technical overview

Steve,

PDF print files, much like writing to a db2 file, do not show up in the
output of a job. That is limited to spool files: "4. Work with spooled
files".

For example,
OVRPRTF FILE(QPJOBLOG)
DEVTYPE(*AFPDS)
TOSTMF('/rob/stevy.pdf')
DSPJOBLOG OUTPUT(*PRINT)
WRKJOB
4. Work with spooled files
nothing
WRKLNK '/rob/stevy.pdf'
Object link Type
stevy.pdf STMF

The extra cost of AIX may be worth it versus Linux. For example a company
in the next town from us installed TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) under AIX
on Power. We had it installed under Linux on Power. We employed the same
consultant. The consultant did the other person first (which I would
think would have honed his skills). He had a much easier time on AIX
because all the drivers were included instead of all the downloading he
had to do for Linux.

Rob Berendt