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Data Sheet |
User Guide |
CoolTools is a toolkit for managing iSeries and AS/400 spooled files. |
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CoolTools provides an easy way to convert, manage and distribute your spooled files, either automatically or manually, interactively or in batch. |
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CoolTools provides:
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The ability to create spooled file monitors, which are processes which detect the arrival of spooled files on specified output queues in a ready status and then carry out user-defined actions against those spooled files. |
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The facility to define spooled file rules which determine what actions are applied to which spooled files. |
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The ability to specify spooled file scripts which determine a sequence of operations to be applied to a spooled file. |
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Together, these three concepts give you a powerful and highly flexible way of configuring your system for automatic spooled file conversion, management and distribution. If you also have CoolSpools and Communiqué. CoolTools integrates fully with them. |
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WRKSPLFPDM (Work with Spooled Files PDM-style), a command which provides a simple and familiar but powerful and flexible way of operating on sets of selected spooled files. When run interactively, WRKSPLFPDM is similar to the PDM commands WRKLIBPDM, WRKOBJPDM and WRKMBRPDM, but whereas those commands allow you to work with libraries, objects and members respectively, WRKSPLFPDM works with spooled files |
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RUNSPLFCMD (Run Spooled File Commands), a command which provides similar functionality to WRKSPLFPDM, but without a user interface. It lets you select a set of spooled files and run the same command or standard option or user-defined option against each of them, providing a powerful way of doing things like archiving, deleting and moving spooled files en masse. |
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The ability to customize the standard options provided by WRKSPLFPDM and RUNSPLFCMD (i.e. you can determine what command string is run when, for example, a user selects option 10 against a spooled file). |
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Excellent control over authority to options and command parameters within WRKSPLFPDM. For example, you can now manage user authorities to each individual CoolTools user-defined option and parameter of the CVTSPLSTMF command, as well as to standard options. |
CoolTools dovetails with ariadne’s CoolSpools product which converts spooled files to stream files in a variety of formats such as PDF and Excel. With CoolTools and CoolSpools together, it’s easy to create electronic documents from multiple spooled files automatically. If you also have ariadne’s Communiqué email product, you can email them too!
To make things even easier, CoolTools is also now available as a module in the CoolSpools Plus bundle. CoolSpools Plus bundles CoolSpools, Communiqué, Slipstream and CoolTools as a single licensed program using a single product library. If you are installing CoolSpools Plus (licensed program 5COOLSP), refer to the User Guide for CoolSpools Plus for details of how to install CoolSpools Plus.
Let’s look at some possible uses for CoolTools.
If you’ve got CoolSpools, you’ll know how much your company can save in time and money and effort by replacing paper with electronic documents such as PDFs. Maybe you’re now converting your business reports to PDF format every night rather than printing them so they can be emailed to your users or customers or published on your website or intranet.
With CoolTools, you can make this even easier by detecting every time a spooled file is created on a given output queue and automatically applying one or more actions to that spooled file.
But what about the hundreds or even thousands of archived spooled files you’ve accumulated over previous years and which you’d now like to convert?
CoolTools can help you here too.
Using the various criteria available, you can easily use WRKSPLFPDM or RUNSPLFCMD to select sets of related spooled files to work with and convert them all to PDF format in a single batch job.
Or maybe you’d like a way of saving your spooled files every night so they don’t have to be kept online all the time and clutter up your disk? With WRKSPLFPDM and CoolSpools you can easily save an entire output queue in CoolSpools’ highly compressed archive stream file format by running a single command. These archives can then be backed off to tape or even burnt to CD using a cheap and simple CD writer on an attached PC. If you need them back later, you just load them off the CD on to the iSeries using FTP or a network drive and restore them.
Or perhaps you’re just looking for an even better way to manage your spooled files online than WRKSPLF? With WRKSPLFPDM you can:
· Select spooled files by spooled file name
· Select spooled files by output queue
· Select spooled files created between a range of dates
· Repeat options PDM-style using F13
· Apply PDM-style user-defined options to sets of selected spooled files
· Use substitution variables in user-defined options
OS/400 V5R1M0 or above.