Re: Mass Change Authority in IFS

Considering the implementation of recursive shell requests, for /large/ requests [i.e. with *many* files and directories] had at one time ended with a failure to complete [per resources exhausted or similar] or worse when terminating also wreaking havoc with the system by terminating system auditing [bad enough by itself, but considering that if the safety of the QAUDENDACN = *PWRDWNSYS was enabled, the system would then also go down], I always have used the CL commands or similar via IFSTOOLS. Perhaps someone knows if on the recent releases the implementation of -r is no longer failing [or taking excessive resources] as compared to the same request effected in a CL command using SUBTREE(*ALL)?

Regards, Chuck

Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

I know CHGOWN works, and it is a CL command, however;

There are some things that are just a whole lot easier to do and in some respects faster and more accurate in a shell script using
Unix commands. Call the shell script from CL if you would like,
but since you can achieve REXX like string manipulation etc in a shell script, you can achieve a lot more in script than you can
from CL alone. My argument is not that the IBM i commands don't
work, they do, they are just do not offer the flexibility and
control that a shell script might offer. For one time shots, stay
with the CL command, but the moment you find yourself doing the
same task over, consider a shell script.

There is a very good book: "Qshell for iSeries" by Ted Holt and Fred Kulack (MCPress) as well as the several articles that Scott Klement has written to show how to use this powerful tool.

On 3/9/2010 7:36 AM, Bob Voltz wrote:

Thanks to all...CHGAUT worked like a champ.

Now...is there a way to do a mass CHGOBJOWN on IFS files?