Creating PDF file

senthilmp · Post by **senthilmp** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:09 am

Hi,

is it possible in DS to create a PDF file. I have to create a pdf report using Datastage.

Rgds,
senthil

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:21 am

DataStage itself has no pdf output, but various tools exist to print to pdf files or to create pdf files. What contents do you want in the PDF?

senthilmp · Post by **senthilmp** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:29 am

Its a report with 10 columns,

Sainath.Srinivasan · Post by **Sainath.Srinivasan** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:35 am

You can use reporting tools such as Business Objects. That has the capability of saving as pdf.

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:37 am

A report of *what* information? Basically, if it is a DataStage report you can always print it to a PDF document.

senthilmp · Post by **senthilmp** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:12 am

its not a datastge report rather a Excel file with 10 columns which will be calculated in the Datastage jobs.

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:16 am

How about this URL?

senthilmp · Post by **senthilmp** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:22 am

manual intervention is required for this, ie. manually taking the excel output and converting it into pdf...

My target is to prepare a pdf file report and send it to mail box of users using notification stage. so no manual intervention will be there...

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:50 am

DataStage has no builtin PDF writing stage. But you could always call a conversion tool from an after-job routine or from a job sequence to perform this PDF creation.