Re: OV/400 to PF

rob@dekko.com wrote:

> We have an application which basically used OV/400 as an early version of
> variable length fields for entering comments.  There would be a field in
> the main PF which would contain the document name in OV/400.  To print the
> main doc was a masterpiece of merging.  Now I have just under 2,000
> documents I need to convert into data into a PF.  I've looked at CPYFRMPCD
> and CPYFRMIMPF and I am meeting with abysmal failure.
>
> Then I tried PRTDOC into an output file.  This looks nothing like the
> printout.  You get scads of stuff where I have no idea where it came from.
>
> My next technique will be to PRTDOC into a spool file.  Copy the spool file
> to a disk file.  Take the disk file and append that onto another DB2 file
> and construct a key back to the original file.  Now if I can only get that
> dang cheshire cat to stop disappearing and reappearing...
>
> Any better suggestions?
>
> Rob Berendt
>

Rob,

Have you looked in the QUSRTOOLS. There is a tool to copy Office Docs to source
members in a source PF.  It make use of PRTDOC and some QMQRY-queries.

It was still available with V3R2M0.

Regards,

Carel Teijgeler.


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