Add API to IBM i that initiates file transfer to ACS Client PC

Provide an API for the IBM i operating system that shall initiate a "File transfer" of the specified file to the ACS Client PC running the ACS session. For example, a ACS client is running on Mac OS or Windows and runs a server (green screen) app that generates a PDF, Excel, JSON, or XML file. Today we have to EMAIL that file to the client or force them to initiate the file transfer of some obscure file name. This is too complex. What is needed is a new API, I'll call it QUSDXFR that when called, communicates with the ACS client to send the specified file to the Client using whatever method IBM chooses. For example, call QUSDXFR('/home/cozzi/sales.xls') -- this would initiate a transfer of the SALES.XLS file to the PC whose ACS session is running the job that called the QUSDXFR API. The end-user (the ACS user that evoked the QUSDXFR API) will be prompted with a popup dialog box to Save As, Cancel, or Cancel and report to QSYSOPR. There should also be a Quiet Mode job attribute to avoid the popup dialog, but I haven't thought enough about that option as yet to give advice on it.

On client/customer systems, we are generating between 50 and 150 Excel and PDF images per day in a high volume shipping/receiving enterprise. Currently we send these files via EMAIL to the client, which has its own set of complexities, such as asking the end-user for their email address. The client has requested that the files be transferred directly to the user's PC (via the ACS session) because the Internet connection is down in their country much more frequently then you would expect and when it is, they cannot receive these files.