Re: IFS object attributes -- MIDRANGE-L

I just went digging and found that V5R2 QShel now has the "attr" function, which cna return a whole slew of things, including create date. Go to Programming->Shells->QShell->--->>> etc. in InfoCenter

If you're at an earlier release, you are left with a loop running some combination of opendir(), readdir(), and the various stat()-like functions. Or take a look at Qp0lProcessSubtree() & Qp0lGetAttr() - the latter gives you a lot more info than the stat() functions and the options on attr() in QShell remind me of these options in Qp0lGetAttr(). /COPY stuff is in QSYSINC/QRPGLESRC(QP0LSTDI).

What's nice about Qp0lProcessSubtree() is that it is a single call, after some setup, that itself makes the calls to a function you define, so you don't have to manage the loop so much.

It's worth looking at something from IBM at <ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/as400/fromibm/ApiSamples>. There are 2 SAVFs there, both starting with "IFSTOOL" and all source is included for the utilities contained therein. Lots of other stuff, too.

Then there's something else at <http://www-922.ibm.com/easy400h/ifstool.htm> that has a few RPG utilities (the one from Boulder is mostly in C) with source for IFS, including one that reads a directory and puts the info in a file in QTEMP.

HTH
Vern

At 05:16 PM 1/20/2004 -0500, you wrote:

Ideally, would like to be able to list all objects into a file with the
create date.  EDTF was suggested...but that has no outfile capabilities...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Klement" <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: IFS object attributes


>
>
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Rick Klopfer wrote:
>
> > Cannot find a native command that will list the attributes of objects in
> > IFS, especially date-created.
>
> WRKLNK, option 8 shows these attributes.   It's a native command...   is
> that what you're looking for, or did you mean something that will list
> them to a file?  or are you trying to retrieve them into a program, or
> what?
>
> > Does one exist?  If not, anyone have something available?
>
> In addition to WRKLNK, there's various commands that can do this sort of
> thing in QShell, though I don't know if you consider QShell to be a
> "native command" or not.
>
> Aside from that, there's the stat(), fstat() and lstat() APIs which give
> you a lot of the attributes about the files, though I don't know if the
> date created is one of them...   The Qp0lGetAttr() API should also give
> you this information...
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