RE: CHKOBJ for an IFS file

Ken:

Also perhaps not "elegant" but works under most circumstances -- try CHKIN. 
Doesn't seem to care if you did a CHKOUT first. Maybe it'll suit your situation.

Tom Liotta

On Wed, 13 June 2001, "Graap, Ken" wrote:

> 
> Thanx Peter .... I finally stumbled on a CL solution too... DSPLNK ...
> 
> Not very elegant, but it seems to work.... In this example I'm
> testing for a file in directory /PRDLAW/INBOUND/GL165/ with an
> extension of .csv. If it exists I get a report that I then delete.
> If it doesn't exist, I get escape message CPFA0A9...
> 
>    /*  BUILD THE FILENAME2 STRING                           */ 
>                    
>             CHGVAR     VAR(&FILENAME2) VALUE(' ' *TCAT +        
>                   '''/PRDLAW/INBOUND/GL165/' *TCAT +            
>                          &FILENAME *TCAT '.csv''' *TCAT ' ')    
>                                                             
>    /*  CHECK TO SEE IF THE FILE EXISTS                       */      
>                                                                      
>             DSPLNK     OBJ(&FILENAME2) OUTPUT(*PRINT) DETAIL(*NAME) +
>                          DSPOPT(*ALL)                                
>             MONMSG     MSGID(CPFA0A9) EXEC(DO)                       
>                SNDPGMMSG  MSGID(CPF9898) MSGF(QCPFMSG) MSGDTA('File '
>                             *TCAT &FILENAME2 *BCAT 'not found. Did + 
>                             you upload it?') MSGTYPE(*ESCAPE)        
>             ENDDO                                                    
>             DLTSPLF    FILE(QSYSPRT) SPLNBR(*LAST)                   
>             MONMSG     MSGID(CPF0000)                                
> 
> Kenneth
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Dow [mailto:pcdow@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 2:46 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: CHKOBJ for an IFS file
> 
> 
> Hi Ken,
> 
> Try the access() UNIX-type API. It will let you check forthe existence of
> the file and (if required) whether you have specific authorities to that
> file. You pass it a null-terminated string with the path & filename as one
> parameter, and an integer that tells it what you want to test for. For
> documentation, try:
> 
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/v4r5/ic2924/info/apis/access.h
> tm
> 
> 
> hth,
> Peter Dow
> Dow Software Services, Inc.
> 909 425-0194 voice
> 909 425-0196 fax
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Graap, Ken" <keg@nwnatural.com>
> To: "'Midrange'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 8:36 AM
> Subject: CHKOBJ for an IFS file
> 
> 
> > Does anyone know of a command or technique, that could be used to check
> for
> > the existence of an IFS file like CHKOBJ can check for the existence of a
> DB
> > file?
> >
> > Kenneth
> >
> > ****************************************
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