Re: Sending AS/400 objects via PC, email, etc.

At 09:14 PM 3/23/98 -0500, David Shea wrote:
>Some time ago, a friend of mine at IBM told me how to save objects from the
>/400 down to the PC.  This used the CPYTOSAVF and CPYFRMSAVF commands from
>QUSRTOOL.  The process was to:
>
>But...
>
>Since IBM doesn't give away QUSRTOOLS any more, some people can't compile
>the utility.
>
>Does anyone know of another method to accomplish this task?  Diskettes are
>just soooooo much cheaper than 3490 and DLT tape cartridges...

Dave,

You could provide the source for the CPYxxxSAVF utilities yourself on a PC 
diskette. The program that does the copy is really very simple. It just uses 
two 528 byte program described files. One is overridden to the save file, the 
other to the physical file. Just read a record from one and output to the 
other. You need some simple validation in a CL program and a command for each 
direction to initiate the whole thing.

hth
Pete

Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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