SpoolFactory – Free Tools Spool Conversion Software for i5/iSeries/AS400

Page  2 Discover how to modernize your reports The power of electronic documents  This document describes the free tools which are being offered  Some of them have been commercial in the past so it will be necessary to request a license key  These SpoolFactory tools helping to modernize and improve the output of your reporting systems

Page  3 SpoolFactory Free Tools Spool Converter Standard Version Spool Chart PDF Encryption Spool Excel Spool Splitter Pro

Page  4 SpoolFactory Free Tools Spool Converter Standard Version Software Description Comparative of Standard and Pro Versions 1 Examples (PDF and HTML)

Page  5 Spool Converter Standard Version  Spool Converter converts *SCS spool files to: -PDF, HTML, TXT  All the conversion is performed in native mode -No external servers required  Two available modes -User mode – Spool Manager -Command Mode – for Software Integration  Right-to-Left languages are supported (Arabic and Hebrew)  Special alphabets can be implemented by requesting -For example, reports containing Thai alphabet V6R1 Ready Software Description Standard version needs to be activated with a license key by requesting from SpoolFactory

Page  6 Fast software installation  Save file available for downloading  Restore the objects and start to use the software Easy learning  For non-technical users, Spool Manager is the interface to convert the spool files OS400 or i5/OS  The whole conversion process is entirely done in native mode Command mode for developers Software Description Spool Converter Standard Version  Command mode allows to call the converter from CL programs  After spool conversion, it is possible to call a user program to execute other actions with the generated file

Page  7 Spool Converter Standard Version V6R1 Ready Comparative of Standard and Pro Versions

Page  8 Spool Converter Standard Version Examples based on the output of DSPOBJD command Examples (PDF and HTML)

Page  9 SpoolFactory Free Tools Spool Chart Features Chart Examples 2

Page  10 Spool Chart Features Very easy to use Available chart types: Line, Bar, Bar3D, Pie, Points Title definition with format options (font, size, color) Definition of record type to process by specification of a text and the position where it is located Definition of the values of Y Axis and of X Axis (the latter is optional) Legend description (optional) for X and Y Axis Generation of the resulting files in IFS or/and in traditional AS400 file system Negative data are allowed, but only for Line Charts All the process is done entirely in AS400 native mode The output of the Chart is a PDF file The tool is considered as Beta and Experimental Tool for Chart generation based on the content of System i reports

Page  11 Spool Chart Examples based on the output of DSPOBJD command Chart Examples

Page  12 SpoolFactory Free Tools PDF Encryption Software Description 3

Page  13 PDF Encryption  PDF Encrypt is an iSeries/AS400 command to use the encryption features of the Apache Foundation Project PDFBox version  The terms of use of the Apache license are available at: -  Main Features -Encryption of PDF documents stored in the IFS file system -Definition of number of bits for the encryption key -Optional security features: -Owner password -User password -Extraction permission: enable/disable copy content to clipboard -Modify permission: enable/disable option to modify the PDF -Print permission: enable/disable the print option V6R1 Ready Software Description

Page  14 SpoolFactory Free Tools Spool Excel Software Description 4 Excel Examples

Page  15 Spool Excel  Spool Excel is a tool for conversion of iSeries/AS400 reports to Excel format by using of XML technology, with XML for Excel  The tool is available as a command  Main features -Extraction of 10 data fields from the report -Title in the reports, specifying row and column where it will be placed in Excel -Description (header) of the extracted fields, allowing to specify width of Excel columns, and to include empty columns as separator -Automatic management of numeric fields -Generation of the resulting files in IFS or/and in traditional AS400 file system V6R1 Ready Software Description Spool Excel needs to be activated with a license key by requesting from SpoolFactory

Page  16 Spool Excel Examples based on the output of DSPOBJD command Examples

Page  17 SpoolFactory Free Tools Spool Splitter Pro Software Description 5

Page  18 Spool Splitter Pro  Spool Splitter Pro is a tool for splitting of iSeries/AS400 reports, allowing two possible ways of split definition: -By group of pages -Content of the report -By localization of a text -By definition of a variable field. Doing that the spooled file will be split when changes its value  It can work as a stand-alone tool or integrated with Spool Converter -As stand-alone tool allows only splitting a spooled file and resulting other spooled files -Integrated with Spool Converter, allows to convert the split files to other formats: -PDF, HTML and TXT for Spool Converter Standard and Pro versions -CSV, XML and Excel (XML for Excel 2003) for Spool Converter Pro version V6R1 Ready Software Description Spool Splitter Pro needs to be activated with a license key by requesting from SpoolFactory

Page  19 References Company Country JVC USA United States Acum Israel Instec Software Solutions Inc. Canadá Grupo Andreani Argentina Kuhn Holding The Netherlands Factory 2-U United States Conte of Florence Italy Golden West United Kingdom Globalsoft Turkey Jan Dupont Belgium Pullservi Internacional S.A. Paseo de las Delicias Madrid – Spain Tel: (34) Fax: (34)

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