NO! Don't clear the library QTEMP! It's not a future proof solution, you or some else will in 5 years time wonder why that new file is intermittently disappearing.
And why check if the file exists? If it did exist or not doesn't change the outcome of the DLTF command.
/Joakim
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From: c400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:c400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Wren
Sent: den 15 februari 2013 11:14
To: Bare Metal Programming IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [C400-L] Creating temporary table
If you know there is nothing else in QTEMP that you want to keep you could just use the CLRLIB command to clear all objects from QTEMP at the start of your program.
Personally this is where I'd use a short CLLE module wrapper around the C module to use the best features of all available languages. Do the stuff that CL is good at (CHKOBJ, CRTDUPOBJ etc.) and then invoke the C function with a CALLPRC and bind the lot into a single program object.
Paul
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From: c400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:c400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jevgeni Astanovski
Sent: 15 February 2013 09:07
To: c400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [C400-L] Creating temporary table
Hello,
Such a trivial operation and I understood that I do not see simple solution...
A program needs to use a temporary table, I assumed that QTEMP is the best place for it.
So I have a table with the same structure in MYLIB and program needs to create its copy, however, empty, and in QTEMP.
I shall issue a CL command CRTDUPOBJ from my C program, but I cannot gurantee, that the table does not exist there already.
I see two ways to protect myself from this situation:
1. Capture relevant error message (probably CPD2104, object already
exist);
2. Issue unlink (Unix style API) to delete this file before making
CRTDUPOBJ - but this will end in error if file does not exist.
Or I should rather attempt to open file using _Ropen with mode "wr" and if it ends in error, issue CRTDUPOBJ and make _Ropen again?
All these methods seem odd - that made me think that maybe there is some better way...
Thanks,
Jevgeni
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