Re: Where is the PF-SRC attribute?

["Dennis Lovelady" <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Al Barsa, Jr. wrote:

>At 11:52 PM 2/5/99 GMT, you wrote:
>>I'm starting to write a program to process source physical files, but I
can't
>>seem to find the attribute that tells me a file is source versus data. I
was
>>using the QUSLOBJ API to get a list of files in a library, then possibly
>>QUSOBJD (? I'm not at the AS/400 now) API to retrieve the file desciption.
I
>>can see *FILE as the type and PF as the (extended?) attribute, but not
source
>>versus data. Where can I find this?
>>
>DSPFD *BASATR will give you this information.  You can use the API that
>mimics this command and option.

(That API would be QDBRTVFD.)

If you have the file opened already, then you can look into the Open Feedback
information, where position 82 contains a Y if this is a source file, or N if
it is not.

HTH
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