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What's new for IBM i 7.1

Read about new or significantly changed information for the Spooled files topic collection.

Spooled file security exit

Spooled file security has been enhanced through the addition of a spooled file security exit point. This exit point can be used with a spooled file security exit program to allow more granular access to individual spooled files based on the operation to be performed.

See Spooled file security and its subtopics for details.

Exporting spooled files as PDF

IBM® Navigator for i has been enhanced to export spooled files (printer output) to a PC file system in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) format.

See Exporting a spooled file to your PC for details.

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