Mainframe data conversion to electronic PDF - alternative to Emtex?

We are currently converting mainframe data files to PDF using Emtex but it is extremely slow (taking a weekend to convert 50,000).

These need to happen in an automated, secure, FAST manner with very large volume. We don't need to print them, just transfer the electronic PDFs to the client.

I'm researching alternatives to Emtex and have found CICS2PDF, RPM Remote Print Manager and the PDFlib suite that may have potential.

Does anyone have experience with any other tools that I a开发者_如何学Cm missing? I would love any additional information.

You might want to look into afp2pdf. You end up with "printers" on the mainframe that are defined as scripts that call the afp2pdf utility. Dump the resulting PDFs into a Unix System Services directory on the mainframe, then fire up your mainframe FTP or SFTP client and PUT them to your destination(s).