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We are generating PDF reports from Mainframe Focus and then we FTP to Windows server. This works ok but we would like to serve these PDF reports using IBM HTTP Server directly instead of transferring them to windows. IBM Web/http server picks up PDF documents from Unix System Services/HFS. I tried copying PDF documents from MVS dataset into HFS with some translation but that did not help. Could someone familiar with this help me out on who I can serve Focus produced PDF reports directly from mainframe. Thanks!This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry, Focus 7.6 for Z/OS | ||
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Try WebFOCUS? This is entirely a web server issue. Without knowing how you are making these reports available (FTP site, HTML page with links, etc.) and what the problem actually is, it's impossible to answer your question. In any case, the fact that FOCUS produced the PDF report has no bearing on the issue. Talk to the people managin your HTTP server, find out how/which aliases are set up, proper location to make files available, any security issues, and so on. Regards, Darin In FOCUS since 1991 WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat | |||
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This fex creates a PDF report in an App folder and then uses meta http-equiv=refresh to display the report: -* display_pdf.fex ------------------------------------------------------------- -SET &ECHO = 'ALL'; -*-- Set up the report file name --------------------------- -SET &FILE_NAME = &YYMD || '_' || EDIT(&TOD,'99$99$99') || '_output01.pdf'; -*-- Allocate file name ---------------------------------- FILEDEF OUTPUT01 DISK temp/&FILE_NAME -RUN -*-- Create the report ------------------------------------- TABLE FILE CAR SUM SALES BY COUNTRY BY CAR BY MODEL ON TABLE HOLD AS OUTPUT01 FORMAT PDF END -RUN -*-- Display the report ------------------------------------ -HTMLFORM BEGIN <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=/approot/temp/!IBI.AMP.FILE_NAME;" /> </head> </html> -HTMLFORM END This HTML page displays an existing PDF report: <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=/approot/temp/P20021031.pdf"> </head> </html> I think the easiest way for this to work is to have the PDF file in an App folder, though you may have trouble with that if you have a multi-tier environment, with the data server on one machine and the web server on another, there would be no way for the web server to point to the data server (though I could be wrong about that). Francis  Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991 Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server | |||
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It doesn't appear that there is any WebFOCUS in the picture. FOCUS only - on a mainframe. So HTMLFORM and FILEDEF aren't going to help. Regards, Darin In FOCUS since 1991 WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat | |||
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<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=/approot/temp/P20021031.pdf"> </head> </html> Perhaps the HTML page will help... Francis Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991 Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server | |||
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