RE: QOpenSys access

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxx>]

Today has been a learning day for me as well.  I'm sure I'm not done yet.

The application is this:  Our AS/400 application builds HTML that shows all
the scheduled deliveries for all the customers of our client's client (got
that?).  This app runs once each day after order posting completes.  The
HTML file is then ready for export.  The plan is that a VB app on the server
will FTP-get the HTML file from the 400 and place it on the server, so that
our client's client can browse this document at their convenience from the
web.

As I recall, the reason for the VB app is that we won't have public access
to the server that will host the web page, so we won't be able to run FTP
from the 400.  This is the grey area for me, and others far more
knowledgeable than I are saying it has to be this way.  My thinking was that
the file probably didn't even need to be moved outside of the QSYS.LIB
system, but I have no idea what the VB app requires, so at this point, I'm
just doing what I'm told.

>case-sensitivity..
I picked that up from the File System Summary table in the OS/400 Integrated
File System Introduction V3R2 manual online at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/QBKAUH01/CCONTENTS?DT=19
960327112033.  Comparing the root & QOpenSys file systems, it says that the
root FS does *not* have "Case-sensitive name search", whereas the QOpenSys
FS does.

- Dan Bale
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SAMSA, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Buck Calabro
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 4:42 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: QOpenSys access


Dan,
  I've found that IFS use is almost always driven by some trading partner
requirement.  Here, we use the IFS because some telephone switches deliver
information to a stream file that genuinely has no record layout - every
record is variable in size.  There isn't a QSYS.LIB file that would work.
We've used QDLS in the past, but performance is less than stellar.  Can you
share the application that will use the IFS?

>I have decided to change from using
>the QOpenSys file system to the root
>file system, since I don't want to get
>caught up in case-sensitivity issues.

I think I'm about to learn something new, but they seem the same to me in
that regard:

mkdir '/buck'
Directory created.
mkdir '/BuCk'
Object name already exists.
mkdir '/QOpenSys/buck'
Directory created.
mkdir '/QOpenSys/Buck'
Object name already exists.

  --buck

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