Re: CHKOBJ in RPG IV programme

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can check for existence of even QSYS objects with the access()
Unix-Type API. Documentation is in the IFS section of Unix-type APIs. It's
callable from RPG IV, just like other APIs, with prototyping and return
value. Return value is an integer = 0 means successful - object exists, -1
means does not exist. Parameters are 2, first is a null-terminated string
(I think recent RPG can have these?), the second is an integer = 0, to test
existence.

There's no /COPY member in QSYSINC/QRPGLESRC, so you need to build your own.

At 12:45 PM 8/27/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Carol - I may be wrong, but I'm not sure that I would recommend using this
>technique.
>
>If the CPP for CHKOBJ has a published API by IBM that you can use for checking
>object existence, then OK.  If not, I don't think that I would call it in any
>programs, just like I am NOT going to write MI code in my applications, since
>IBM reserves the right to change these interfaces from release to release
>
>.  I don't want to have to change my code because I'm using an unpublished
>interface.  Sometimes it it just easier to use the low-tech approach and call
>a CL program to perform the CHKOBJ.
>Steve Landess
>
>(512) 423-0935
>
>
> >From: "Carel Teijgeler"