Menu item 15: Convert spool files into HTML (CVTSPLHTML)

The Convert Spooled Files to HTML (CVTSPLHTML) command converts spooled files to stream files in the HTML format.
HTML is the language in which web pages are written. If reports will be viewed in a browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer, i-effect can convert spooled files to HTML format for this purpose.

Spooled File (FILE)

The description of this parameter can be found under

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OUTPFILE

The description of this parameter can be found under

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JOBNAM

The description of this parameter can be found under

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SPLNBR

The description of this parameter can be found under

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STMFOPT

The description of this parameter can be found under

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TITLE

The description of this parameter can be found under

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PAGESIZE

The description of this parameter can be found under

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CUSTOMPAGE

The description of this parameter can be found under

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PRTDEV

The description of this parameter can be found under

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PAGEOPTION

The description of this parameter can be found under

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SPLIT

The description of this parameter can be found under

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SPLITPAGE

The description of this parameter can be found under

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SPLITPOS

The description of this parameter can be found under

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SPLITKEY

The description of this parameter can be found under

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EXITPGM

The description of this parameter can be found under

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EXITPGMPRM

The description of this parameter can be found under

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EXITPGMPOS

The description of this parameter can be found under

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EXITPGMKEY

The description of this parameter can be found under

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Font (FONT)

This parameter manages the way i-effect handles fonts when creating a stream file from the spooled file.
Single Values:

*MAP

i-effect maps Power Systems fonts to an equivalent PC font from the basic font set (listed below). This option minimizes the size of the resulting file. The appearance of the text in the HTML file will not be exactly that of the text in the print version of the original spooled file, but will be very close to it.

This parameter contains 2 further parameters:

Font

Enter one of the following fonts, in which the file will be displayed.

*COURIER	Courier
*COURIERB	Courier Bold
*COURIERO	Courier Oblique
*COURIERBO	Courier Bold Oblique
*HELVETICA	Helvetica
*HELVB	Helvetica Bold
*HELVO	Helvetica Oblique
*HELVBO	Helvetica Bold Oblique
*TIMES	Times Roman
*TIMESB	Times Roman Bold
*TIMESI	Times Roman Italic
*TIMESBI	Times Roman Bold Italic
*SYMBOL	Symbol
*DINGBATS	Zapf Dingbats

Font Size

*CALC	i-effect selects an appropriate font size based on the font and CPI information in the spooled file.
4-36	Specify the font size in points.

CVTFONTID

The description of this parameter can be found under

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CVTFNTRSC

The description of this parameter can be found under

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Text Options (TEXT)

Determines various options, which relate to the processing of text in the spooled file.

Currently there are 2 options:

Incorperate Overlay Text

Determines if textual content derived from an overlay or page segment object will be included in the output.

Overlays often contain constants, labels, and heading text while the spooled file contains the variable data associated with those constants, labels, and headings. For example, an invoicing application where the overlay might contain text such as "Customer Name", "Invoice Number", and "Invoice Date" and the spooled file supplies the actual customer name, invoice number, and invoice date information to be printed alongside those labels.

In some circumstances, for example, when creating PDF versions of the spooled file, it may be appropriate to include the overlay text. How-ever, in other circumstances, for example identifying bookmark text, it might be more appropriate to exclude the overlay text and process the variable data from the spooled file. This parameter indicates which option should be chosen.

*OUTPUT	Overlay text is included in the stream file that is created. However, text from overlays and page segments are ignored when processing text function such as bookmarks, split triggers and exit program parameters.
*YES	Overlay text will be included.
*NO	Overlay text will be excluded.
*SPLF	i-effect determines, if overlay text should be included, based on the format of the spooled file, which will be converted. Overlay text will be excluded, if the spooled file's format is *SCS. If this is not the case, than the overlay text will be included.

Line Calculation Method

This option determines the way in which i-effect defines the report's line numbers, for text file creation and text selection ( e.g. for bookmarks, split keys, and exit program parameters).
It is not clear how text lines for text parts should be defined, when using the *ROWCOL method, if the spooled files text contains different font sizes, especially with proportional fonts.

*ENVVAR

The method which will be used depends on the setting for environment variables in CS_TXT_LINE_METHOD.

If there are system level variables and job level variables, the job level variables replace the system level variables.

If *NEW is specified as the environment variable, then this method will be used (refer to the following description of *NEW).

If no environment variable exists or it does not contain the value *NEW, the old method will be used (refer to the description of *OLD).

If PTF 5CV0028 or higher is in use and no system level environment variable CS_TXT_LINE_METHOD exists, then it will be created with *OLD. This is to prevent unwanted changes for applications of exis-ting users, which use the old line number calculation.

If the product is being installed or reinstalled and no CS_TXT_LINE_METHOD system environment variable exists, then the variable will be set to *NEW. This affords new users the benefits of the new line calculation methods from the start.

The system environment variables can be changed to activate or deactivate the new method for the whole system. The environment variable can also be replaced at the job level to use a different variable for specific jobs. This can be used to test the effects of a change in the system level variables.

*NEW

The spooled file's LPI attribute will be used to calculate line numbers in the text. This method is also used by DSPSPLF.

*OLD

i-effect uses LPI values, but the results are different than they would be with *NEW and can vary from those displayed by DSPSPLF.

This option is included for backwards compatibility. *NEW is the recommended value. Choose this option, if applications are in use, which display data, based on the old line calculation method. The applications will not need to be modified if this option is chosen.

DBCS

The description of this parameter can be found under

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HTML Options (HTML)

This parameter determines HTML related options.The parameter currently consist of two elements:

Embed Script File

*NONE	No script will be embedded.
Target Path	Enter the complete IFS path which i-effect will use to take script file contents, which it embeds in the HTML file.