Re: How do you choose which types of API's to use in COBOL program??

For an application that simply needs to read and write to stream files you 
will want to use the Integrated File System APIs.  There are a few very 
specific reasons to use HFS -- but for what you describe you would NOT 
want to use HFS.

Bruce Vining




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Hello everyone!
 
I have a question - I would like to know how to determine which api's to
use on the iSeries in COBOL?  HFS, IFS, etc?  I will be reading/writing
to application log files (stream) and I will need to create the file(s)
internally within the COBOL program - Also I will need to recognize the
delivery/existence of files.  All of this will be occurring in x time
intervals using the sleep API.  Currently I am testing with the API's in
the C++ manual - but the write is giving me strange results.  It does
write a record to the end of the file, but it is not the fixed record
size as in the rest of the file and it is garbage ridden beyond the end
of the record. 
 
Thanks,
 
Adrienne