inFORM Decisions has launched iDocs SmartRouter, a new utility for IBM i that lets users more clearly define how to process and distribute individual pages of a spool file.

iDocs SmartRouter is a standalone software module that offers tests and filters to draw out the specific pages of spool files to be directed to specific targets. Along the way, spool file attributes may be overridden and individual pages of the report or business form may be burst, sorted, grouped, bundled, and ultimately directed to a target, which can again be redirected. In addition to intelligent spool file bursting and sorting, the individually sorted-out pages may be routed into inFORM's iDocs Suite products to be merged with business form graphics, converted to PDFs, emailed, faxed, and/or stored in inFORM's iView Web-based archive retrieval solution.

"Although SmartRouter is not an easy product to describe or appreciate at the surface level, our staff is ecstatic about the tool's potential for our clients to control their output more precisely. Our tech staff can now more easily implement previously complex document or report distribution applications. Most important, we can now offer a type of document control that quite frankly has cost us lost opportunities in the past," says Dan Forster, president of inFORM Decisions.