ISeries/AS400 Faxing ASCII

Question

I had a bit of trouble creating a Fax on the AS400 with the AS400 Toolbox for Java. I found the solution, so I wanted to share.
I'm faxing an ASCII formatted file through iSeries. (A fax/modem pool was already set up there.)
I read the data from an BufferedReader -> String -> char[].
Then wrote the data into a BufferedArrayOutputStream, using the SCS5256Writer class from the as400.jar (jtOpen) (version 4.x for iSeries 5.2.0).
The SCS (SNA Char Stream) object is where the magic happends.
Retrieved the data as a byte[] and created a SpooledFileOutputStream (also from the Toolbox).
When the spooled file is created in the iSeries queue, the device type is now using CURRENT instead of USERASCII.
The sbmfax command (Toolbox commandCall) pickups up the specified spooled file & send it on it's way.

Answer 1

I had a bit of trouble creating a Fax on the AS400
with the AS400 Toolbox for Java. I found the
solution, so I wanted to share.
I'm faxing an ASCII formatted file through iSeries.
(A fax/modem pool was already set up there.)
I read the data from an BufferedReader -> String ->
char[].
Then wrote the data into a BufferedArrayOutputStream,
using the SCS5256Writer class from the as400.jar
(jtOpen) (version 4.x for iSeries 5.2.0).
The SCS (SNA Char Stream) object is where the magic
happends.
Retrieved the data as a byte[] and created a
SpooledFileOutputStream (also from the Toolbox).
When the spooled file is created in the iSeries
queue, the device type is now using *CURRENT instead
of *USERASCII.
The sbmfax command (Toolbox commandCall) pickups up
the specified spooled file & send it on it's way.Interesting. Thanks for the information. :)