RE: E-mailing Queries

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 13:30 -0500, John Candidi wrote:
> Following someone's suggestion I created a PF and copied a spooled file to
> it. How do I get that to the IFS? As you can tell, I'm new at this

Technically, it's already accessible via the IFS as
'/qsys.lib/yourlib.lib/yourfile.file/yourfile.mbr'.

How about:

Data File is in WMCLIB, named SPLTEST.
Target is /home/wmc/spool/march/ directory, file name spltest.txt

cpy obj('/qsys.lib/wmclib.lib/spltest.file/spltest.mbr')
    toobj('/home/wmc/spool/march/spltest.txt')
    toccsid(*PCASCII)
    dtafmt(*TEXT)

Then, 
wrklnk '/home/wmc/spool/march/*' to view the results.

Note that the data file and the target director(ies) must exist prior to
the copy, or you will receive an error.

Of course the drawback to CPYSPLF is that it doesn't keep the pages
looking like pages -- it compresses out the blank lines by default.  I
built a CVTSPLFI command that does a CPYSPLF with CTLCHAR(*PRTCTL) and
then I wrote a program that interprets that data, and re-inserts blank
lines and such as it puts the records on the IFS.  Better, but not
perfect as it doesn't output PDF, and it doesn't work with AFPDS spool
files.

HTH.

Regards,
Rich