RE: CPYTOIMPF to a stream file (was: Using Telnet in Batch mode)

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's right.  If you prompt the command, you'll notice that there are two
choices for the destination, either a stream file or a database file.
Stream files don't have to be in a folder, in the sense of QDLS objects, but
they have to be in an ifs directory(folder) that isn't part of qsys.lib.

A stream file is a collection of bytes on disk. Mostly what the operating
system can know about it is its size and location.  A qsys.lib file is a
different sort of object as far as OS/400 is concerned--it has externally
visible properties a stream file doesn't have like record length and record
count.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DAhKow@ibl.intnet.mu [mailto:DAhKow@ibl.intnet.mu]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 4:22 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: CPYTOIMPF to a stream file (was: Using Telnet in Batch
> mode)
>
>
>
> > Norm wrote:
> > Can you post the CPYTOIMPF command string from your test.
>
>
> Yes here goes:
>
> In fact when I first tested the CPYTOIMPF, I specified as the TOSTMF
> parameter : QSYS.LIB/WORKSNDM.LIB/ZTEST2.FILE/ZTEST2.MBR.
> And this gave rise to the error message I mentionned.
>
> HOWEVER, after doing some reading on the web, where it is
> mentionned that
> AS400 documents are in fact stream files, I created a folder
> AATEST and in
> the TOSTMF parameter I specified:
> qdls/aatest/ztest2
>
> And it works! a document called ztest2 is created in that
> folder, and which
> I can e-mail as an attachment.
>
> Does it mean that stream files cannot exists as 'traditional'
> objects in a
> library and has to be in folders? Why does the
> QSYS.LIB/WOR .... syntax does not work?
>
>
>
> Regards
>