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Tim, there's a Powerpoint from Jake Berberich on the EGL Cafe that
discusses accessing an image file in the IFS, which would conceptually
be similar to other IFS stream file accesses.
http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/thread/1815
If your users have a drive mapped to the IBM i NetServer, you should be
able to use drive letter notation to specify the IFS file name (i.e.
Z:\sharename\subpath\file.name)
If your users have the same userid/password on the PC as on IBM i, you
could perhaps use UNC notation (i.e. \\IBMiName\sharename\subpath\file.name)
Probably the best thing (which is what the Powerpoint walks through)
would be to identify your IFS directory to the HTTP server, and use URL
notation (something like http:\\localhost:80\map\file.name or
file:\\localhost:80\map\file.name). I'm not clear on this - I've never
done this.
The tricky thing is that you said you are running Tomcat on a middle
tier (or DMZ) with the IFS and DB2 stuff on a 3rd tier IBM i (i.e. not
running application server on the same physical system as data).
However, I guess if there is an HTTP Server running on IBM i, you could
identify your IFS directory to that IBM i HTTP server, and you should be
able to find the file since it's a URL lookup. The gotcha would be
you'd need the IBM i HTTP Server to be up & running all the time, as
well as your Tomcat on Windows server.
There probably is a widget or JSP Control (for old EGL) for a local file
selection browse button/window to help your user pick the local PC file
they want to copy to the IFS.
I have called Java programs from EGL located in the IFS before using
WebSphere's Shared Library support specified via the Administration
Console. That let me specify the location and name of the jar that I
wanted to call classes from. But I haven't dealt with copying IFS
files. Sorry I couldn't provide more specific help, but I think you
probably would get an answer on the Cafe if posted or searched there
some more.
By the way, PHP would have had the exact same issue here with the files
being on a different physical system than the application server. Still
would need a way to handle the 3 tier architecture with some sort of
file redirection/aliasing/mapping.
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