RE: as400 as a samba/nt client -- MIDRANGE-L

The GNU utils would be a reasonable fit here.  If your web page was,
say, Net.Data or JSP driven, when a doc was requested it could call a
routine to decompress the file when requested before delivering the file
to the client.  If necessary, store the decompressed files in a dir that
gets cleared periodically (since there's no IFS QTEMP equivalent).

Something like:

Page A: List of documents (Net.Data reading the archive directory,
substituting .PDF for .ZIP).  User selects document.
Page B: Net.Data executes a CL/script to unzip the document and copy it
to the 'tempdownload' IFS dir.  Then calls Page C.
Page C: Presents the doc.  Page C could alternately be a script that
emails the doc to the user, copies to a QNTC folder they can access,
etc.

Periodically the tempdownload directory is cleared with: RMVLNK
'/rootwebfolder/tempdownload/*'

Of course, the above will use some CPU.  If the users are bright enough
to understand ZIP files, just let them download the ZIP and unzip it
themselves.

- John

-----Original Message-----
From: Vern Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 11:21 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: as400 as a samba/nt client


Not exactly an equivalent, since you need to decompress manually, but
IBM 
has a set of GNU Utilities that includes gzip/gunzip. The utilities are 
free. The executables are actually regular AS/400 programs in library
GNU 
and can be called from a command line, not just in QShell, with some 
righteous parameter handling.

Available at 
<http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/enable/site/porting/iseries/overview/gnu_u
tilities.html>

At 08:18 AM 5/8/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Kind of a side issue, but have you considered compressing the files 
>with a ZIP-style utility?  Example: I just compressed the V5R2 Handbook

>and it went from 12.2MB to 5.4 using the WinXP native compressor.  
>While you research your long-term storage strategy, this should free up

>1/2 or more of the space currently being consumed.
>
>Is there a CPROBJ equivalent for IFS files?  I haven't noticed one.
>
>- John


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