RE: work files in qtemp

Hi Doug

QTEMP is a temporary library that is unique to each active job on the
system.  When you sign-on to the system a QTEMP library is made
available for your interactive job.  Qny jobs submitted to batch will
have their own separate QTEMP libraries as well as their own local data
areas.

When developing your programs, you usually compile over a file in your
development library and then when running the program you can either
create the file in QTEMP afresh or copy it there from your library list.
Override the file to use the version in QTEMP if necessary and then run
your program.

As soon as the job finishes, e.g. you sign off an interactive session or
a batch job completes, then the QTEMP library assigned to the job is
removed from the system.  For submitted jobs I don't clear down QTEMP
and for interactive jobs I usually code for the file already existing in
QTEMP when it is being created.

Hope that helps.

All the best

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas W. Palme
Sent: 17 May 2005 16:42
To: RPG Group
Subject: work files in qtemp

I have been working on a program that will reuqire me to use some sort
of 
temporary hold file, a friend suggested that I use a work file in qtemp
for 
the processing of the data...however, I have never used work files
before, 
let alone in qtemp.

Should I just create the file in my library and then copy it to the
qtemp 
directory and then process the data deleting the file once I am done?
Any 
other suggestions would be appreciated.

Douglas

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