RE: Generic deletion of an object

["Goodbar, Loyd (AFS-Water Valley)" <LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Midrange Computing magazine has a generic DLTOBJ utility. It hides all the
AS/400 DLT* commands.
HTH,
Loyd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fisher, Don [SMTP:DRF@HeiligMeyers.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 1:52 PM
> To:   'Midrange List'
> Subject:      Generic deletion of an object
> 
> I am creating a utility that will duplicate any object and handle the
> various exceptions that may occur when duplicating objects.  The one
> exception that is proving difficult is if the new object already exists
> and
> should be deleted.  For example, if I'm duplicating an object and the
> destination library already has that file, but was created earlier than
> the
> source object, then the destination object needs to be deleted before the
> CRTDUPOBJ command can be used.
> 
> Trouble is, all AS/400 deletion commands are object type specific.  I
> could
> create a dummy library, move the object to the library and then clear it,
> but that seems rather clunky to me.  I've searched the API books to no
> avail
> and we don't have TAATOOL, except what comes in the QUSRTOOL library.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
> 
> Donald R. Fisher, III
> Project Manager
> Heilig-Meyers Furniture Company
> (804) 784-7500 ext. 2124
> Don.Fisher@HeiligMeyers.com
> 
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