Accessing files In QTEMP

(David's gonna go nuts on us if we don't keep non-RPG topics off the RPG list.
 This belongs in the MIDRANGE-L section.)

It ain't gonna happen.  And, even if it *can*, you'd be going about it the
wrong way.

Put the file back into your production library, make it a multi-member file,
create a new member for each job you submit that uses this file (use a unique
name for the member; consider if user can submit more than one of these
requests at a time - if so, use a timestamp value in the name), pass the
member name to the submitted job, the submitted job does a file override to
the member, delete the member at the end of the submitted job.

Other considerations:  If you have logicals built on the physical, you'll have
to multi-member them too.  What if the submitted job bombs without deleting
the member?  You'll want to consider some cleanup activity.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952


------------------- Original Message -------------------
Hi all

I'm sure this is an easy way to do this that I don't know about.  I have an
RPG  program that produces a file in QTEMP.  The job then submits a second
job.  I need to be able to access the files created in the QTEMP library
from the first job.  How can I pass the files with the submitted job?  I
want to use QTEMP because several users can be running this job at the same
time and QTEMP will allow me to have individual copies of the same files
without banging into each other.

Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

Frank Carpenter
EMED Co., Inc.
fcarpenter@emedco.com <mailto:fcarpenter@emedco.com>
716 626-1616 ext. 374
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