HACP EE to support PDT files.

HACPEE currently provides printing support in a way that it gathers the text string from the 3270 screen, then converts it to PDF and puts it temporarily on a directory on the HACPEE server, then the user can grab that document to the workstation and send it to a printer. Such PDF is automatically deleted after the user closes the session.

This process does not meet our printing requirements because, apart of the text string from the 3270 screen, we need to generate a PDF document including our own forms and company logo. We generate such a PDF with a 3rd party SW for composing PDF documents.

We are currently testing an in-house java procedure, based on HACL libraries, which, on one side reads the text strings from the 3270 screen, and on the other side uses an existing PDT document (one existing PDT file per LU3 printer) which contains the LU3name of the corresponding printer, and then generates an output SPL file whose initial content is like this:

@#I177782F

where I177782F is the LU3name.

We need the SPL file to contain the LU3name in the body, preceded by @#, because our 3rd party SW to compose the PDF document needs it in order to identify the target printer where the PDF needs to be printed on. Our java procedure puts that SPL file in a folder where our 3rd party composing PDF SW can grab it from. Then, our 3rd party composing PDF SW uses the SPL file and our company forms/logos, generates the final PDF file, and sends it to the corresponding printer as identified by the LU3 name. Then, our 3rd party SW automatically deletes the SPL file from the initial folder.

This is just an in-house sandbox java procedure so, we require HACPEE to provide the same functionality in the code of the product. We need such a feature to be officially supported by HACPEE base code, not a customized code.