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 follows. Any of these tasks can be restricted using the customize function.
A list of spooled files can be displayed. The list of spooled files can be restricted using user and output queue filters. Certain spooled files, such as job logs, dump files, and debug output can be excluded from the list. 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 system, change attributes, and copy to a database file.
You can display the list of printers on the system. 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 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.
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.
You can display the list of Internet printers on the system. 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.
You can display the list of output queues on the system. The set of queues shown in the list can be restricted using library and queue name filters, or only the output queue listed in the authenticated user's i5/OS® user profile can be displayed. 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.