iSeries™ Access
for Web provides support to access spooled files, printers, printer shares,
and output queues on an iSeries server. It also provides support for automatic
transformation of SCS and AFP™ printer output to PDF documents.
A list of tasks that can be performed is shown below. Any of
these tasks can be restricted using the customize function.
- Printer output
- The list of spooled files owned by the current user can be displayed.
From the list, SCS and AFP output can be viewed in PNG, TIFF, PCL and AFP formats. ASCII
output can be downloaded to the browser. PDF documents can be created with
spooled file contents. These documents can be viewed in the browser, placed
in a personal folder, or sent to someone as an e-mail attachment. Options
are also provided to perform the following actions on printer output: hold,
delete, print next, move to another printer, move to another output queue,
send to another server, change attributes, and copy to a database file.
- Printers and shares
- The list of printers on the iSeries server can be displayed. The
set of printers shown in the list can be restricted using a printer name filter.
The list of iSeries NetServer™ printer
shares can also be displayed. From these lists, the printer output for a
printer can be accessed. Printer status information can be viewed. Messages
waiting on printer jobs can be viewed and answered. Writer jobs can also
be held, released, started and stopped.
- PDF printers
- PDF printers can be created to automatically transform SCS and AFP printer output
into PDF documents. The list of configured PDF printers can be displayed.
From the list, printers can be started and stopped. A printer's configuration
can be changed or overridden with the contents of a PSF configuration object.
The owner of a PDF printer can allow additional users to access the printer
or change the printer's owner. PDF printers can also be deleted by the owner.
Note: In
order to use PDF Printers, IBM® Infoprint® Server (5722IP1) must be installed on
the iSeries server.
- PDF printer output
- The list of documents transformed by PDF printers, for which the current
user has authority, can be displayed. From the list, the job information associated
with each transformed spooled file can be displayed. The documents can also
be viewed, deleted, copied to a personal folder, copied to the iSeries integrated
file system, or sent to someone as an e-mail attachment.
- Internet printers and shares
- The list of Internet printers on the iSeries server can be displayed. The
list of Internet printers shares (Internet printers configured using the IBM IPP
Server Administrator interface) can also be displayed. From these lists,
printer status, printer configuration information, and the URL used to print
to each printer can be viewed. Printer output for each printer can be accessed.
Printers can also be started and stopped. For more information about the IBM Internet
Printing Protocol, see the Internet Printing Protocol topic.
- Output queues
- The list of output queues on the iSeries server can be displayed. The
set of queues shown in the list can be restricted using library and queue
name filters. From the list, the number of files on each queue and the writer
associated with each queue can be viewed. Queue status information can be
viewed. The printer output on a queue can be accessed. Queues can also be
held and released.