I see references in the Multiplatform and Z platform documentation to the Client Preview User Exit. I can not find similar documentation in the System i platform documentation. Is this User Exit supported on the System i implementation of CMOD? If so, can someone point me to the documentation for this exit? Are there examples included with the product? If not, does anyone have a working sample code they could share?
I have an interest in trying to do some customized redaction on some OnDemand archived documents.
Thanks,
Joe
Hello Joe, the option for a preview exit is enabled in the OD Admin client when connected to the iSeries. It is in the Application on the Miscellaneous Options tab - and the help text says:
Use Preview Exit
For Multiplatforms, z/OS, and IBM i servers, this option enables the retrieval preview user exit for the application. If this option is selected, a user-written program is called for each document that is retrieved from the server. Any information that is specified in the Parameters field is sent to the user-written program.
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I'm doing some research to find out more.
Here's what I've learned.
In the Application definition, you check the box and you can indicate parameters to be passed to the preview exit.
At the iSeries- create a symlnk to your program. The symlnk should be ARSUPREP and the symlnk should be pointing to whatever program you are going to call.
I can only point you to the ARSUSEC as example of the symlnk setup - no sample/example of a preview exit program, sorry.
Maybe that can give you a starting place (?).