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Overview
Cobwebb have developed an Export Connector for Kofax called COB400XC that calls a IBM i program passing information from the scanned document. The IBM i program can either run in the same job as the Cobwebb Kofax Connector or be submitted as a separate job. This connector enables the information scanned by Kofax to be printed, IBM i databases to be updated, message to be sent etc.
On the Server
You will need to create a program of the same name that has been specified in the Cobwebb Kofax Export Connector and that has the same parameters as listed in the Parameter List below. You may pass back an Error Message in the last parameter and, provided that the program is not running as a submitted job, this information will be passed back to the Cobwebb Kofax Connector to report an error for that Kofax batch of documents. If you wish to access files outside of the CPPD library then you will either need to create a CL program to add the relevant library list information or add.
Parameter List
When writing your program on the server to receive the data from the Cobwebb Kofax Export Connector you will need to specify the following parameters.
Note: If the command is submitted from CHTTPD [the Cobwebb Web Server], the max length of each parameter can only be 190.
Parameter |
Len |
Type |
Input/ Output |
Description |
Delimiter |
1 |
A |
In |
If the information passed in the following 20 parameters needs to be split into separate fields then the delimiter character will be specified here. |
Parameter 01 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 02 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 03 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 04 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 05 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 06 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 07 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 08 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 09 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 10 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 11 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 12 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 13 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 14 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 15 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 16 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 17 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 18 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 19 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Parameter 20 |
980 |
A |
In |
Data which may or may not be split using the specified Delimiter character. |
Error Message |
128 |
A |
Out |
Any error message that you wish to return to the Cobwebb Kofax connector to identify the failure of the program. If the program is successful then this must be NULL filled. |
Sample Programs
COB400XC
Cobwebb supply a sample RPGLE program COB400XC which will print the contents of Parameters 1 - 20 using the QSYSPRT print file with User Data of COB400XC. If a Delimiter has been used, the program splits the parameter string into its component parts before printing each component. You will find the source for the program COB400XC in the source file QUSRTOOLLE in library CPPD.
The program will also pass back the contents of Parameter 20 in the Error Message as this program may be used to check that the Cobwebb Kofax Connector is working correctly.
Note: As the parameters can be up to 980 bytes in length they may be printed over up to four lines in the spool file.
COB400SBJ
The Kofax Cobwebb Export connector is called within a multi-threaded environment. This limits what you can do within the export connector. If you wish to operate in the more traditional single threaded environment then you can use the sample program COB400SBJ to submit the job. Sample source for this program may be found in the source file QUSRTOOL in library CPPD.
COB400XCC
Cobwebb also supply a sample CLP program COB400XCC which could be used to add any libraries required see the source file QUSRTOOL in library CPPD. This would only work outside the multi-threaded environment.
Example
When the Cobwebb Kofax Export Connector calls the Exit Program for a number of item lines e.g.
Part No |
Description |
Quantity |
UOM |
Unit Price |
Disc. |
Total value |
123456 |
Test 1 |
1 |
EA |
1.10 |
|
1.10 |
234567 |
Test 2 |
2 |
0.50 |
|
1.00 |
|
345678 |
Test 3 |
3 |
BX |
2.00 |
0.50 |
4.50 |
The value for all of the Part Nos will be in Parameter 01, the Description in Parameter 02 etc. so this is how the parameters would look when being passed to the Exit Program:
Delimiter = ,
Parameter 01 = 123456,234567,348678
Parameter 02 = Test 1,Test 2,Test 3
Parameter 03 = 1,2,3
Parameter 04 = EA,,BX (Notice that the blank entry is still passed to keep the order)
Parameter 05 = 1.10,0.50,2.00
Parameter 06 = ,,0.50 (Again blank entries passed to keep the order)
Parameter 07 = 1.10,1.00,4.50
