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Re: un zip on iseries

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Gary Thompson <gthompson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Any reason not to use system i API zip/unzip ?
(currently looking at API example by Carsten Flensburg,
published on iPro Developer 2/8/2011)

If the rigamarole of using APIs does not put you off, and the
performance of the system zip and unzip are sufficient, then no,
there's no reason not to use it.

The two main reasons people typically *don't* use the system API are
(1) it's not available on their version of the operating system, and
(2) it is way easier and simpler to just use jar, ajar, or a
third-party program.

Remember, anything you can do on a QSHELL or CL command line, you can
do in a CL or RPG program. (In the case of RPG, the easiest would
probably be to call QCMDEXC, which is still, for most people, way
easier than fiddling with system APIs.)

John

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