Frequently asked questions and useful guides from CoolSpools

My emails are being sent/aren’t being delivered: how can I work out why?

With CoolSpools software you can automatically convert your spool file to PDF, or multiple PDF’s, saving time and ensuring accuracy.

How much of your day is spent creating, formatting and distributing reports on the System i, AS/400 or iSeries?

My document prints on a pre-printed form and I need to see that inside the PDF. Can CoolSpools do that?

There are some pages/lines in the report I don’t want. How can I get rid of them?

Why should I convert a spool file to PDF to distribute my AS/400 documents?

If you work within an AS/400 environment, wouldn’t it be great if you could take your spooled files and use them to communicate information across multiple channels?

CoolSpools is designed to make it easier, quicker and more convenient to manage, access, convert and distribute information using System i.

Does CoolSpools handle forms overlays?

If you work in an IBM System i, AS/400 or iSeries environment, there are many applications on the market than claim to make things easier and faster. But are any of them as powerful as CoolSpools

What versions of your software are currently supported?

Maximise your IBM i Spooled File archiving capabilities by combining CoolSpools with IBM Content Manager OnDemand

Can you prevent people from modifying/printing/copying text from PDF’s?

How can I use CoolSpools to import data from an XML file to my IBM i Database?

An IBM i (AS/400) users guide to distributing existing QUERY/400 reports as Excel Spreadsheets from CoolSpools.

CoolSpools recently introduced command CHKXML runs natively on the IBM i platform to validate the content of an XML file against an XSD schema

Are you getting the most from your System i environment? Is your data managed, extracted and communicated in the most efficient manner? Or do you feel like your System i databases and spool files…

What is the difference between CoolSpools license and support keys?

Use CoolSpools command GETSPLDTA to populate a CL variable with data from within an IBM i spooled file.

CoolSpools quickly distributes information from System i into a variety of different formats including Excel, XML and PDF.

Importing delimited and fixed-position text files to IBM i database with CoolSpools

I’m running CoolSpools V6, CoolSpools PLUS, CoolSpools V5 or Slipstream V4 and am having problems opening Excel files in Excel 2010.

With which versions of OS/400 is your software compatible?

How do I set up automatic processing of spooled files?

We’re using a High Availability system that replicates our objects and data to a backup system. What do I have to do in relation to CoolSpools etc?

This page answers frequently asked questions about upgrading to Version 6 or 7 from an older release of CoolSpools.

The CoolSpools application is not impacted by the Apache Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228

I’m upgrading to IBM i V6R1M0-V7R4M0, do I need a special version?

What do I need to do to get email working on my system?

When communicating information throughout your business, there are several factors to consider.

What are CoolSpools Database variables?

Why doesn’t my overlay line up properly?

CoolSpools really IS the most powerful, most fully-featured, easiest to use System i spool file converter

The options listed below all install a full working version of CoolSpools.

On January 9, IBM confirmed that Spectre and Meltdown does affect IBM POWER Systems servers.

I’m running CoolSpools V6, CoolSpools PLUS, CoolSpools V5 or Slipstream V4 and am having problems opening Excel files in Excel 2010.

Our guide to creating Excel format files on your AS/400 System I / iSeries. You need Excel format from your spool files because that’s the format in which your users and customers want their……

Can CoolSpools password-protect an Excel file?

Automate your IBM i (AS/400, iSeries) Spooled File Processing with CoolSpools

This page answers frequently asked questions about upgrading from Version 6 to Version 7 of CoolSpools.

The options listed below all install a full working version of CoolSpools V6

If you work in an IBM iSeries, System i or AS/400 environment, creating PDFs has got even easier! All thanks to CoolSpools spool file converter.

CoolSpools can generate a wide range of file formats by converting your iSeries spool files including PDF, Excel and crucially XML.

The CoolSpools range of AS/400 solutions includes a powerful spool file converter that can output to a wide range of popular file formats, including Excel.

My spooled file contains multiple documents (invoices, statements etc.) that need to be sent to different people (customers, departments etc.). How can I split/burst the spooled file so I can do…

Does CoolSpools handle color?

What are CoolSpools Spool Admin substitution variables, how and where can I use them and how to they differ from CoolSpools Spool Converter variables?

How do I write an exit program for CoolSpools to call?

Where does CoolSpools get the email address for a user profile from?

CoolSpools software for IBM i (AS/400) can generate AS/400 XML documents onto your server's IFS or distribute them via email or FTP and includes a variety of additional features that can modernise…

How do I tell CoolSpools who to email a converted spooled file to?

Do I need to buy a license for my backup/D.R. system? Do you have special deals for backup systems?

Where does my output go and how can I access it?

CoolSpools is a powerful, fully-featured spool file converter, offering an easy, customizable way to convert spool to PDF and a whole host of other useful file formats.

CoolSpools lets you easily pull together reports in PDF, XML and Excel formats from IBM iSeries / AS400 using different selections of the company data.

Why do Coolspools fonts looks different in the PDF to what it does when printed?

Here are a few of the ways that we keep our customers happy and our software up to such a high standard.

Compose content-rich email messages on IBM i

Can CoolSpools password-protect a PDF?

Can CoolSpools produce PDF-A?

Microsoft plans to discontinue the support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 & 1.1 in Office 365 and Office 365 GCC as of June 2020.

Don’t you wish someone would invent an easier way to automatically convert System i spool & database files into Excel documents?

Could you be making better use of your data extracts? Maybe you’re wasting time performing tasks that could be automated

Creating PDFs just got a whole lot easier! Why manually create PDFs when CoolSpools can automate the process from your spool files?

There are a number of reasons why converting a spool file in IBM AS400 / System I to PDF will benefit you and your company

Converting important data from your iSeries system to be shared across intranets, the world wide web and elsewhere requires a flexible file format.

Why create XML files on your system i?

I want to give my files a meaningful name. How can I do that?

Everything you need to keep CoolSpools running after a hardware or operating system upgrade