Re: How do I retrieve a STMF change date in a CLP

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 12:28 -0400, Mark S. Waterbury wrote:

Hi, Terrence:

If that's what you want, why not just write your own command (and
command processing program)?

Because ...
- That would be too much fun.
- The command would not be present on the next customer machine I have
to work on.
- When I screw up using the command, the good people on this list
would have no way to set me back on track.

Cheers,
Terry.

That's why IBM gave us the ability to create commands.

And that way, you could write this command processing program in ILE RPG
IV, or even in ILE C/400, since it would probably be much easier to deal
with the stat() API that way.

And then just use your new command in your CL programs, as and when needed.

Cheers,

Mark S. Waterbury

> Terrence Enger wrote:

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 13:39 -0500, DeLong, Eric wrote:

Search the archives for examples of the stat api in CLLE. Here's the
page from the infocenter...

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/apis/stat.ht
m

Hth,
Eric DeLong

I wonder ... Is this requirement--to retrieve `stat` info in a CL
program--common? Can we convince IBM to give us a *CMD wrapped around
`stat`?

Cheers,
Terry,
the guy with a fetish for command definitions.

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Subject: How do I retrieve a STMF change date in a CLP

I have been asked to create a CL that will be used to promote IFS
objects. In the CL I have to find out if the object exists and what the
Last Change date is. Is this possible in a CL?

To see if the object exists I have tried "CD /ToTheDir/TheStreamFile"
and monitoring for a CPFA0AB message. I am using RTVDIRINF on the object
to get the change date but this is a slow method.


Thanks
Jim