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From: Pete Dashwood on 13 May 2010 20:11 Jessica Colman wrote: > Hi everyone, > > a customer asked, if there is a possibiliy to generate barcodes on a > mainframe with pl/1 or cobol. I noticed a thread here in 2004 but it > didn't come to an end. Does anyone have an idea? > > Regards > > Jessica (Germany) I see you've had many suggestions. If I were doing this I would use AFP (Advanced Function Printing). It works fine with both PL/1 and COBOL. AFP allows graphics to be embedded into documents printed by a mainframe. I used it to add signatures to letters that were generated on a mainframe. It is simple, straightforward, and works. I notice that Peter Flass suggested it, as AFP includes barcode fonts. I agree with him. Pete. -- "I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
From: Rene_Surop on 14 May 2010 01:55 > > As others have said, the best solution is to off-load the data to a PC and > have the PC print the barcodes. > > Printing barcodes on a PC is trivial. > PC desktop barcode printing is trivial but it is cost effective. If it is a batch printing then I would suggest extracting the mainframe data into desktop PC and print the barcode from there. The reason for this is that barcode printers can be easily attached to a Windows OS/hardware serial port anytime. I could share my barcode printing program (source code) for a Datamax (Prodigy) brand using UPC EAN-13 if you like. Just email me back.
From: Jessica Colman on 14 May 2010 15:45 Hi everyone, thank you for your suggestions! AFP seems to work fine. Regards Jessica > Hi everyone, > > a customer asked, if there is a possibiliy to generate barcodes on a > mainframe with pl/1 or cobol. I noticed a thread here in 2004 but it > didn't come to an end. Does anyone have an idea? > > Regards > > Jessica (Germany)
From: Pete Dashwood on 15 May 2010 09:14 Jessica Colman wrote: > Hi everyone, > > thank you for your suggestions! AFP seems to work fine. > > Regards > > Jessica Good choice! Glad you solved the problem. -- "I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
From: Shmuel Metz on 15 May 2010 21:19
In <hseq3b$o2d$1(a)speranza.aioe.org>, on 05/12/2010 at 05:55 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah(a)ugcs.caltech.edu> said: >To be more explicit, you can't directly write barcodes from either >PL/I or COBOL. Of course you can. >That is, there is no OUTPUT BARCODE or PUT BARCODE statement. There's no PUT EBCDIC or PUT TN statement either; does that stop you from writing EBCDIC data to be printed with a TN train? >You can write out code in another language, PCL, PDF, >Postscript, HPGL, etc., that will generate barcodes when sent >to the appropriate device. Sure you can, but why do it the hard way. If she's licensed for bar code fonts then she can use them. If she's licensed for AFP software then she can use that. >With enough demand, barcode could be added to some language. Yes, and you could graft ears on a tree. It makes sense to add graphics to a language, but not specific fonts. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap(a)library.lspace.org |