Re: Printing from the IFS

i've done this (in 3 steps) could easily turn this into a cmd with parms for
file name,etc
CHKOBJ     OBJ(IFSDTA) OBJTYPE(*FILE)
MONMSG     MSGID(CPF9801) EXEC(CRTPF FILE(IFSDTA) RCDLEN(198))
CPYFRMIMPF FROMSTMF('/files/abc.txt') TOFILE(IFSDTA) MBROPT(*REPLACE)
RUNQRY     QRY(*NONE) QRYFILE((IFSDTA)) OUTTYPE(*PRINTER) FORMSIZE(66 198)
can set any spool overrides you want before runqry with ovrprtf.
jim franz

----- Original Message -----
From: <thomas@inorbit.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: Printing from the IFS


Peter:

On Sun, 16 December 2001, "Peter Dow" wrote:

> I'm looking for a way to copy an IFS stream file to an AS400 spool file,

I'd guess this is the basic problem; that is, what you want to do isn't what
your command is written to do.

> something like:
>
>  CPY        OBJ('/home/test/textfile.txt') +
>               TOOBJ('/QSYS.LIB/QGPL.LIB/PRINTER.FILE')

Though you want to copy to a "spool file", the command tries to copy to a
printer file -- not the same thing at all, eh? (I'm assuming PRINTER.FILE is
a PRTF kind of file.)

Naturally, the PRTF exists; and hence, the CPY fails as it always will when
TOOBJ() exists:

> This fails with CPFA0A0 "Object already exists".

I'm not sure if any 'standard' command will be useful for this; I'd like to
know if any work. I'd start with QShell utilities for quick stuff, likely
with pr. Then I'd create my own procedure in order not to require QShell.

Note that a streamfile can be CPY'd directly to a new *usrspc object, i.e.,
with extension .USRSPC, if the *usrspc doesn't exist. Unfortunately, due to
the way audit bits are handled, you'll probably need *AUDIT special
authority. (The reverse doesn't seem to be true.) This might be useful for
an intermediate solution if you don't have immediate time for a true
solution.

Tom Liotta

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