BVSNews - The Newsletter from BVSTools.com Issue 4 - April 18th, 2005 In This Issue: From the Desk of Brad - Responses on LPAR Pricing! - - Trial Keys for Software now Fully Automated - Software News - Spooled File Tools (SPLTOOL) Major Update! - FAQ Snap Shot - When converting spooled files to PDF, SPLTOOL works fine for spooled files 132 wide, but spooled files wider than this get truncated. Do you have a solution? - Featured Testimonial Featured Software - The SPLTOOL Suite - ======================================================= From the Desk of Brad --------------------- - Responses on LPAR Pricing! - I would like to thank everyone for their responses and feedback on the issue of LPAR pricing. The two most common responses were: 1. Purchase software for full price for main partition, and then discounted pricing for every secondary LPAR that the software will be used on. 2. Price software per machine as it is now, but charge a yearly maintenance/support fee. (This also would mean that for those paying a maintenance fee could transfer their registration keys to new machines at a pro-rated discounted rate instead of full price). I am still interested in hearing from anyone with ideas on this subject, as it seems to be a very hot topic in the software sales world these days, not only for the iSeries but other platforms with the ability to consolidate machines using logical partitions. Every idea will be listened to, so please be sure to express why your feel one solution is preferred over another as completely as possible. - Trial Keys for Software Now Fully Automated - The BVSTools.com website has now been updated to email temporary keys for software automatically. If there is software you wish to try, or if you are moving to a new machine and require a temporary key to get the software running, simply go to www.bvstools.com/download.html and click on the link to download the software. On this page you will be presented with a form that asks for your email address. Simply complete this form and a temporary key to enable the software will be emailed automatically to you. As usual, if you do not receive a temporary key (or any response from us) within 12-24 hours, please contact us again. You can find contact information at www.bvstools.com/contact.html. ======================================================= Software News ------------- - Spooled File Tools (SPLTOOL) Major Update! - This update to SPLTOOL applies to converting spooled files to PDF documents and will be very good news for a lot of customers. In the past there was a limit of 3000 pages that could be converted into PDF. This has now been updated so that over 30,000 pages can now be converted! This fix has been included in service pack ST050415 which is availble for SPLTOOL v8.22. You can download this service pack at www.bvstools.com/spltool.html. Please keep in mind that this service pack is only for SPLTOOL v8.22. You can find instructions to see what version of SPLTOOL you are running at www.bvstools.com/faq.html. As usual, if there are any questions, please feel free to contact us! ======================================================= FAQ Snap Shot ------------- - When converting spooled files to PDF, SPLTOOL works fine for spooled files 132 wide, but spooled files wider than this get truncated. Do you have a solution?? - Yes. SPLTOOL has a command named SPLTOOL PDF Configuration (SPLPDFCFG) that allows you to set up the attributes of the created PDF file. These attributes are based on the original spooled file's attributes. You can read more about this command and how it works in the online documentation for the SPLPDFCFG command at www.bvstools.com/docs/spltool/. More FAQs can be found at https://www.bvstools.com/faq.html. FAQs specific to software can be found in the software documentation section at https://www.bvstools.com/docs/. ======================================================= Featured Testimonial -------------------- "We've now been using this [SPLTOOL] for over 5 years. We've had, in that time, a sum total of 2 events that required us to seek help from you. In 5 years. 2 times. I don't think I 've ever had a software package anywhere near as stable." See more Testimonials at https://www.bvstools.com/testimonials.html ======================================================= Featured Software ----------------- - The SPLTOOL Suite - The SPLTOOL Suite combines our three most popular tools and gives you an easy way to convert and distribute your spooled files in PDF, HTML, Text, RTF or other formats. SPLTOOL will give you the power to convert *SCS spooled files into PDF, HTML, Text or RTF formats. AFPTOOL gives you the power to convert *AFPDS spooled files into PDF, TIFF or PCL files. MAILTOOL is the email "engine" that allows you to easily send emails from your iSeries. Put all of these together and you've got powerful report distrubution package that allows you to send spooled files via email, transfer them via FTP, view them on the web, or save them all for archival purposes! For more information on the SPLTOOL Suite feel free to visit https://www.bvstools.com/spltoolsuite.html or contact us directly. ------------------------------------------------ If you would no longer wish to receive a newsletter from BVSTools.com, simply reply to this email with the word REMOVE in the body. ------------------------------------------------ Bradley V. Stone www.bvstools.com