Re: Send PDF to Browser

[Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As far as I know you have to store the spool-file in PDF in the IFS since
you
can't write spool files into a storage address.

But what is the problem? You can just delete it after it is send to the
browser.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Jan Grove Vejlstrup <jgv@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I create a webservice that receives a document-ID as input and shall
> deliver a PDF of the document back to the consumer. I generate a spooled
> file of the document and use the attributes wscst(*PDF) and tostmf of the
> printer-file to convert the spooled file to a PDF and store it in the IFS.
> With my program I read the PDF from the IFS, put a appropriate header
> before it and use STDOUT to send it to the consumer.
>
> Is there a way to do this without having to store the PDF temporarily in
> the IFS?
>
> Best regards
>
> Jan
>
>
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