Re: Writing to QDLS with Java on the 400

[Glenn Holmer <gholmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Wall wrote:
> Sorry, QDLS is not thread safe so threaded jobs cannot access it.  Java
> jobs are automatically threaded so java.io.* classes cannot access files in
> QDLS.
>
> I know this is going to be a big surprise, but I am going to suggest a
> Toolbox class :-).  The Toolbox IFSFile* classes access data via the file
> server which is single threaded so they can access files in QDLS.  With a
> small amount of code change you can use Toolbox classes instead of java.io.
> * classes.

We're in the same boat, a retail system wants to put its files
in QDLS.  We use the IFS classes and they work just great.

>
>
> Is there any truth in the rumour that you can't use Java with the QDLS
> filesystem?  We have to support a legacy system that picks up files from
> there; our application just uses standard Java classes to create files
> in a specified directory, like /home/user-name under Unix, or
> C:\some-dir under Windows.


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