RE: RST Command Question - This is a QUIZ! (Answer)

It certainly surprises me, as the V5R2 B&R manual specifically states: "Use
the RST command to restore objects that you have saved with the SAV
command."

However in the dark recesses of my mind, I seem to recall a statement that
IFS commands map to CL commands if appropriate. Does anyone know if that is
a true statement?  Vern's test would seem to support it.  I would be very
curious to see the joblog, Larry, if you would be so kind as to post
selected commands or email me privately.

Also, on my User profiles the home directory is listed as "/home/USRPRF"
however DSPCURDIR (immediately after signon) shows Directory : /   

Regards,

Scott Ingvaldson
AS/400 System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group


-----Original Message-----
date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:40:10 -0600
from: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: RST Command Question - This is a QUIZ! (Answer)

So it appears that RST will restore from the result of a SAVLIB to tape - I 
just tried a SAVOBJ to a SAVF, then RST '/QSYS.LIB/VERN.LIB/SAVFNAME.FILE' 
and this did not work - but when I CHGCURDIR to '/QSYS.LIB/VERN.LIB', it 
worked fine. So it had to be that '/' was the current directory, and the 
RST command says to go through subtrees.

Huh!

Vern

At 01:10 PM 2/6/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>But ... This would only work if you had done a SAV of the QSYS.LIB
>directory, right? Normally the QSYS.LIB directory is excluded from a SAV
>operation .....
>
>Kenneth
> >
> > We just did this and the results were these things (I have a
> > job-log to
> > prove this!)
> >
> >     1) All user profiles and security data
> >     2) All configuration objects (Except TAP01 and DSP01)
> >     3) All user libraries
> >     4) All Documents and FOlders
> >     5) All IFS Objects
> >     And as a Bonus a RSTAUT is run
> >
> > Amazed the heck outta me, I gotta tell ya!
> >
> >     We surmised that it would restore the contents of the IFS
> > since as
> > some guessed that is what was saved on the IFS portion of the
> > SAVE 21.
> > When it hauled off and started restoring libraries we stared
> > in amazement!!
> >
> >     Now we're looking for an explanation of this behavior.  ;-)
> >
> >     - Larry
   
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