Re: Need to scan files

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

There ARE utilities (that's what IBM calls these commands, in the QSHELL
docs) here that do things we've never been able to do easily on AS/400. One
is the 'sed' command, which lets you do extensive replacement, in place, of
sections of text in files.This could be a fantastic maintenance/fixup tool.
SQL can do it, but it's cumbersome.

We can get around the external file limitation by creating a PF with
RCDLEN, then CPYF *NOCHK back and forth. But I consider this a bug, and am
going to report it. I mean, source PFs have fields, just like any
externally described file, after all.