RE: Can Rumba access the IFS?

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Definetly go with the shared drive then.  If the application doesn't want 
to know if a shared was created beforehand, or if all PC's have the same 
drive letter mapped there you can always do the unc method of 
\\systemname\folder\file

Just like if I was in your company and emailed you a link with
file:\\myas400\mysharename\myfile

The generally accepted way, (for the non gui-phobic), is to use iSeries 
Navigator to create the share on their iSeries.  The individual clients do 
not need iSeries Navigator, Rumba, or any other such animal.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




"Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
>
> What were you hoping that the transfer tool would do for you; convert a
> flat file into Excel?  In other words, why bother with Rumba versus 
using
> ftp or even simpler - a shared drive?

Rob and everyone else...

The question that was posed to me was in reference transferring binary
files, in this particular case PDF files.  Not sure whether a shared drive
is feasible or not.  The client knows little about the IFS, but has Rumba,
and I just wondered if Rumba had an easy way of entering in a file name 
like
'/temp/files/myreport.pdf' and transferring it from the IFS to a local
drive.

Joe

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