Re: Finding AS/400 technical documentation

Hey, Don, you old ... (oh, this is a public message.... Let me rephrase...)

Hi, Don!

Thanks for your message.  :)  And thanks to Buck, Phil and the others who
also provided helpful information regarding this documentation.

I think I'm on my way now to doing what I need, thanks to some great
pointers.  I'm sorry I didn't state my problem clearly.

What I'm trying to do, and believe that I now have the necessary pointers,
is to take a series of directories of about 1,000 source (RPG, COBOL, etc)
files, and build transfer descriptions to send them all to the AS/400 using
(not FTP) file transfer capabilities of View Now.  This is admittedly a
roundabout way of accomplishing my goal, but other methods of transferring
these source members are not available at this client site.  I intend to
build the .TTO files, then pass them through the ViewNow "import" facility
to produce NetManage "upload" descriptions.

Then I need to figure out a way to make this all run as a nice little batch
thingamajig.  Haven't looked into how that might be accomplished yet.

No, I'm not bored.  :)

Dennis







Don <dr2@cssas400.com>@midrange.com on 10/09/2001 06:20:27 PM

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Dennis,

that stuff was documented in the OLD client access for DOS manuals....



On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Dennis Lovelady wrote:

>
> Hi, Folks:  I'll reserve my rant for after the question, but I'd sure
like
> to hear other opinions about it.  Hopefully, I just don't know where to
> look, and all this stuff still is (and will remain) available.
>
> My question is: where can I find documentation for the .TTO and .TFR
files
> used by file transfer?  I had a link to that information at one point,
but
> it's been invalidated by IBM "enhancements."  Would appreciate pointers
to
> that info.  Thanks.
>
> And now my rant.  Maybe it's just me.  I hope so.
>
> It seems that with each passing week, IBM makes useful documentation for
> the AS/400 systems (particularly those that aren't labeled "iSeries")
more
> difficult to find.  Having found some documentation, it seems to be less
> useful with each rework.
>
> Used to be that the HTML-based "Book Manager" books could be found from
the
> main http://www.as400.ibm.com site (after clicking library).  Those
> HTML-based books were wonderful because you could actually search the
> specific manual for the information you wanted, and voila: you'd be
> presented with links to the information you want.
>
> That's all changed.  Or so it seems.  Now it's all packaged into the
> "information center," where the most refined search one can perform, is a
> search of the whole flippin' site.  Where the shortcomings of Java shine
> through, substantiating the claim that a pretty interface is a useless
> interface.  Given the choice, I'll take ugly ANY day of the week.
>
> What IS the deal, IBM?  Do you not want people to understand how to
> continue using this system?  Or am I missing the boat completely?  Can
> ANYONE show me a reason that the new java "Information Center," aside
from
> being cuter, is an improvement over the "Book Manager" format?
>
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