Re: QUSLOBJ - how to differentiate source PF's from data PF's

Aaron

The list objects API has stuff only to the depth of object information - data vs source is an attribute of a certain object type - *FILE - and even more an attribute of a certain kind of that object type - physical files - there are lots of other file types - display, DDM, ICF, logical, printer, etc.

So I guess IBM in its wisdom does not consider the data type to be part of an object at the higher level that an object is.

At least that is my guess based on no inside knowledge - just trying to reverse-think how things might have come about!

Vern

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Aaron Bartell" <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>

I am writing a program to call QUSLOBJ and am wondering if there is a way to
tell source physical files from data physical files (i.e. QRPGLESRC vs.
CUSTMSTPF). When I call the API there is both the object type and
attribute, but these end up being the same for both types of objects. I
have looked through the variety of result formats and am not seeing anything
that would be a differentiator. Note that checking for "Q*" isn't an option
because there will be source physical files with names that start with
letters other than "Q".

QUSLOBJ API docs:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/apis/qusl
obj.htm

Any ideas?
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
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