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radkrish · Beginner Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 102 Topics: 19

I know we can convert a mainframe delimited file to csv or in xls format. Is it possible to extract a report in PDF format thru mainframe?

regds,
radkrish

superk · Advanced Joined: 19 Dec 2002 Posts: 684 Topics: 5

Yes. You can use SAS, or the readily-available freeware utility TXT2PDF.

radkrish · Beginner Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 102 Topics: 19

Thanks, Superk.
I guess, txt2PDF is an external source. And not sure about SAS. I dont have much info on it. Can we directly convert dataset to PDF file automatically like we do to get CSV file in mainframe ?

Please share some visible info on this one.

Thanks,
radkrish

kolusu · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 10:39 am Post subject:

Nic Clouston · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 1:34 pm Post subject:

the txt2pdf I found was a perl source - but I have not, as yet, got it to work
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kolusu · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 1:48 pm Post subject:

Nic Clouston · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 1:59 pm Post subject:

Thanks Kolusu. I've downloaded, will play later!
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