InterForm Manual - System & Method

Appendix Q - Building functions into your menues
532 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ®
InterForm400 provides a wide range of extra commands and tool that can help you and
your end users in your daily work. To see in what areas InterForm400 can help you it is a
very good idea to go through the list of commands provided in InterForm400 in Appendix I
on page 436.
Below a few tips are listed:
The alternative to WRKOUTQ (display merged spooled files)
The normal WRKOUTQ command is fine, but it has a few limitations when working with
InterForm400. It can e.g. not display a merged spooled file. That is one of the reasons why
InterForm400 is delivered with the alternative command: APF3812/APFWRKOUTQ.
The advantages of the APFWRKOUTQ command are:
• You can see how many pages a merged spooled file is.
• You can change the page range of a merged spooled file if you used a PJL printer.
type for the merge in InterForm400.
• You can display merged spooled files via Swiftview.
• You can e-mail merged spooled files directly from the menu via option 1. (The
senders e-mail address is grabbed from the SMTP information of the current user
in the system directory and the overlay or overlay selector is found in the afc setup
of the outq).
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Please also notice, that InterForm400 contains an alternative to the WRKSPLF command,
called APFWRKSPLF. This command is described on page 455.
One way to offer the advantages of this command can be to create a new library and
create a duplicate of the APFW RKOUTQ command in it:
CRTLIB APFWRKOUTQ
CRTDUPOBJ OBJ(APFWRKOUTQ) FROMLIB(APF3812) OBJTYPE(*CMD)
TOLIB(APFWRKOUTQ) NEWOBJ(WRKOUTQ)
This WRKOUTQ command will temporarily not work during an upgrade of InterForm400 or
if the apf3812 library does not exist. To avoid a problem you could remove or rename the
extra WRKOUTQ command created above during an upgrade of InterForm400 or if you
decide to remove InterForm400 - but why would you do that? ;-)
View the last created spooled file as either PCL or PDF file
The commands: APF3812/APF3812 and APF3812/MRGSPLFPDF can merge a spooled
file with an overlay or overlay selector and present the result directly on the screen if you
are running the commands in an interactive job.
If you e.g. have just created a screen shot in the same job, then you can refer to the last
spooled file generated with the right spooled file name. To view such a spooled file directly
you could build in either of these commands into your user menues: