Adobe Print Services in Java Instance on iSeries

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Comment by moderator: An english overview of this thread is given in an answer to this posting.
Sehr geehrter Herr Hoelters,
wir möchten gerne GTS on System i fahren. Für fast alle Module aus GTS
braucht man die JAVA Instanz. Das soweit ist wohl kein Problem.
Für die Adobe Printing Services brauchen wir die Java Instanz auch.
Nun gibt es wie unten aus dem Buch zitiert non supported Platforms.
Im Hinweis Hinweis 925741 wird eine Lösung mit einem zusätzlichen
Applikationsserver empfohlen.
Dadurch stellt sich raus, das wir doch einen zusätzlichen Windows
Server für diese ADS benötigen.
In der PAM kann man folgende Informationen finden:
Freigaben Adobe Document Services Datenbank-Plattformen DB2/400...
freigeg.
Datenbankversion Betriebssystemversion Datum Status
DB2/400 V5R3 WINDOWS SERVER 2003/IA32 32BIT 05.12.2005 Freigegeben
DB2/400 V5R4 WINDOWS SERVER 2003/IA32 32BIT 14.02.2006 Freigegeben
Bedeutet das jetzt das ich die ADS nicht ohne Windows Server nutzen
kann ?
mit freundlichen Grüßen
Carsten Schulz
Erstens:
Book: Global Trade Services Using SAP® GTS 7.0
Page 13
Depending on our process, it can be necessary to set up the following
additional instances:
SAP NetWeaver Java Stack
All print forms in SAP GTS are available in Adobe print technology. If
you want to use printing functions the Adobe Document Server (ADS) is
required that is icluded in the delivery of SAP NetWeaver Java Stack.
Printing documents and forms can be necessary in the following areas:
- SAP Customs Management
- SAP Risk Management Preference Processing
- SAP Risk Management Letter of Credit
Zweitens:
Book: SAP NetWeaver 2004s SR1 Java: IBM eServer iSeries
2.4 Running Adobe Document Services on Non-Supported Platforms
Adobe document services (ADS) are currently not supported to run
natively on all platforms supported by
SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver, in particular on 64-bit platforms.
Procedure
To use ADS in SAP landscapes on non-supported platforms, install an
additional standalone AS Java on a
platform supported by ADS.
For more information, see SAP Note 925741.
Drittens:
Hinweis 925741 - Adobe Doc. Services (ADS) auf nicht unterstützt.
Plattformen
Hinweis zu IBM iSeries
Zusätzlich zu der beschriebenen Lösung können Sie einen zusätzlichen
Microsoft-Windows-Applikationsserver für die ADS im Java-Stack
einsetzen, wenn Ihre Umgebung auf einem IBM-iSeries-Server installiert
ist.
Message was edited by:
        Carsten Schulz
Message was edited by:
        Carsten Schulz

Answer 1

Hello.
This question and its answer might be interesting for the non german speaking members of this community, too. So I made a short translation of the discussion. Not in every detail but it should be sufficient to get the idea. If you have any further questions don't hesitate to ask here. For future discussions I would like to encourage all of you to use english as the forum language. The members of this community are distributed all over the world and using english is the only way to get feedback from most of them.
Now to the question:
Mr Schulz is interested in using GTS on a system i. To use the Adobe Printing Services support in GTS it is necessary to set up a Adobe Document Server (ADS). At the moment ADS does not run natively on system i. The PAM states that ADS runs on DB2/400 using a windows server. SAP Note 925741 suggests to run an additional application server. The question is now if there is no way to run a ADS on a system i without a windows server.
The answer given by Mr Hölters can be outlined as follows:
In fact ADS is not supported under i5/OS. To allow usage of ADS without introducing a second database platform to your system landscape there is a solution given in SAP Note 925741. Instead of having a second NetWeaver installation on a different platform you can add an additional dialog instance to your application server running on system i. If this dialog instance is running under Windows you can install ADS there and don't have to use a second database platform.
With kind regards,
Jan Stallkamp