The task came in: I needed to take many spool files from an output queue and convert them into just one PDF. I have written about converting individual spool files into PDF, but now there was the need for the to be only one PDF.
My solution would need to:
Merge all of the spool files into one spool fileConvert the one spool file into a PDF in the IFS
Both of these I have done separately on many occasions; this was the first time to do them together.
I cannot use the spool files I used for this task, but I have two spool files in my personal output queue: