RE: Copy just the first record with CPYFRMIMPF

Peter,

The only reason that it work without the leading slash is because by
chance your working directory happens to be  / (root).

I'd be willing to bet that the home directory specified in your profile
is '/home/usrname' and that it doesn't currently exist.  If this
directory gets created, for instance you install and start using WDSCi.
Then instead of your working directory default to / (root) it will be
your home directory.

At this point, your program would no longer work as it will be looking
for a file
/home/usrname/qsys.lib/qtemp.lib/temporary.file/temporary.mbr

What Scott is saying is that you should _ALWAYS_ fully qualify the path
when dealing with the QSYS.LIB file system of the IFS.  That means
always use the leading slash.

Remember the IFS is just like DOS/Windows/Linux/Unix.  A fully qualified
path starts with a lead / which is the root directory of the file
system.  If the lead slash isn't there then you are dealing with
relative path names that are subject to the whim of the directory you
are currently in.

HTH,

Charles Wilt
--
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
  

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Vidal
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:33 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Copy just the first record with CPYFRMIMPF

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===>: "This code will only work if your current directory is /."
I have to say that this command worked like this.  The 
variable I use is 
&PATH (equals to the full object path name), which is...

 /TEST/2006_08_04_pay[1].20060804.013057.txt 

... and use this command (as a work-around solution) like this:

CPYFRMSTMF FROMSTMF(&PATH) + 
           TOMBR('QSYS.LIB/QTEMP.LIB/TEMPFILE.FILE/TEM+
           PFILE.MBR') MBROPT(*REPLACE) 

This is working.  You are correct when you say I was 
requesting to pull 
just "one" record at the beginning but I also explained what 
my ultimate 
goal was to know what file I was reading so I can do specific steps, 
depending on that fact.  This is a work-around solution and 
this is the 
type of ideas I was looking for.

=====================
===>"PLEASE DON'T BE A FOOL, it only takes a second to fix 
the problem, 
why do iSeries people INSIST on doing this wrong?"

Sometimes, when we discuss topics on email, is a little 
difficult to get 
to a point that we all can talk the same language.  Probably 
my intellect 
and experience level is not as high as you have and I may 
have missed your 
guidance in some concepts.  For example, I was never exposed 
to the QSHELL 
solution until yesterday.  Probably I am alone in this ship but maybe 
there are more in the room that want to learn but do not have 
that level 
of knowledge yet.  It is definitively true that we will get 
there.  Is a 
matter of time and I can deal with it.  In the mean time, I 
will keep on 
living under the motto: "the dumber question is the one I do not ask."

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===> "This is the correct syntax: 
TOMBR('/qsys.lib/qtemp.lib/temporary.file/temporary.mbr')"
Even though I did not write the '/' symbol before the 
QSYS.LIB parameter, 
somehow the system did the right interpretation and worked 
correctly. This 
is a screen shot of the message written in the joblog:

Message ID . . . . . . :   CPCA081       Severity . . . . . . 
. :   00  
Message type . . . . . :   Completion  
Date sent  . . . . . . :   08/17/06      Time sent  . . . . . 
. : 14:13:00 
 
  
Message . . . . :   Stream file copied to object.  
Cause . . . . . :   Stream file 
/TEST/2006_08_04_pay[1].20060804.013057.txt 
  was successfully copied to object  
  /QSYS.LIB/QTEMP.LIB/TEMPFILE.FILE/TEMPFILE.MBR in CCSID 
(Coded Character 
Set
  Identifier) 37.  



Peter Vidal 
PALL Corporation / SR Programmer Analyst, IT Development Group
10540 Ridge Rd., Ste 203, New Port Richey, FL 34654-5111
http://www.pall.com

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