PHL Spool
Your existing spool files become indexed, distributed PDFs
No development, no changes to your programs: PHL Spool starts from the spool file your application already produces. It adds a page background, indexes it so you can find it again, archives it and sends it — and it handles Factur-X e-invoicing, the hybrid PDF/XML format used in France and, as ZUGFeRD, in Germany.
On video
PHL Spool in two minutes
A demonstration with commentary by an IBM i developer, on a real application.
0
lines of code to write — we start from your existing spool file
Factur-X
PDF/A-3 compliant with the European standard EN 16931
PDF or Excel
your choice, template by template
Key features
What PHL Spool can do
Spool files taken as they are
Spool files to process are selected just as in WRKSPLF: library, output queue, name, user, status. Your print programs are not touched.
Page background and layout
PDF front and back backgrounds, conditional if needed, portrait or landscape orientation, fonts and margins. Spool fields can be moved to the millimetre, and you can add lines, images, symbols and barcodes.
Indexing and search
Typed criteria — integer, decimal, date — are set directly on spool fields and filled in automatically at archiving. You can then find all of a customer’s invoices or all of an employee’s payslips.
Factur-X e-invoicing
A post-processing step generates the XML mapped to the spool fields and embeds it in the PDF, as PDF/A-3 compliant with EN 16931, in the BASIC, BASIC WL and MINIMUM profiles.
Local or remote archiving
Storage in the IBM i IFS or on an FTP/SFTP server, with a year/month/day/template folder structure and tracking of missing transfers.
E-mail distribution
Several SMTP servers, e-mail templates with an HTML body, CC and BCC recipients, read receipts, and an address book fed by an SQL query.
Printing and tracking queues
PDP printers, PostScript 3 or output queue, conditional printing with number of copies, and tracking queues for printing, e-mail and FTP.
Automation and scheduling
A monitoring subsystem processes any spool file that reaches ready status according to a routing table, and templates can be scheduled weekly or monthly via the IBM i job scheduler.
Per-user rights
Users are created from their IBM i profile, with rights per feature, per template, per e-mail template and per output queue. Authentication logs are kept.
Technical requirements
What your system needs
Everything your IT team needs to check before getting started.
IBM i version
V7R4 TR7 minimum
Client workstation
Nothing to install
User browsers
Chrome, Firefox, Edge
PHP server
Required (PHP-CLI on the IFS for archiving from a 5250 screen)
Licence
Modular Armonie licence
Development
None: configuration by templates
Installation
Complete kit and activation keys per solution
Product sheet
PHL Spool sheet in PDF format
Features, requirements and use cases on two pages. Share it internally to build your case.