Re: display current directory level

["rick baird" <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

I am using absolute paths, so maybe the curdir problem is not the problem

I don't know for sure that the way I described it is why it happened,
but it's the only thing I can think of that could get reset on a
signoff/signon.

On 10/18/06, rob@xxxxxxxxx <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Would it be better to use absolute paths versus relative paths?  For
> example, instead of copying to
> TOSTMF('rob/myfile.txt')
> use
> TOSTMF('/home/rob/myfile.txt')
> and start with the slash?
>
> Might want to change the logging level of the job to get more messages.
>
> Rob Berendt
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> Hey all,
>
> A user had a problem today where a CPYTOIMPF command in a CLP failed,
> I think because the file already existed and the user no authority to
> replace.  I'm assuming this, because of course the job log only showed
> the CPC2957 - no records copied error.
>
> After dumping the program to get the path, and checking, I deleted the
> existing file and had her try again, and got the same error (CPC2957 -
> no records copied).
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> I had her log on to another session and key the command manually, and
> it worked fine.
>
> Signing off and relogging on fixed the problem with the initial
> session, and I can't think of any reason why this would happen, except
> an educated guess that somehow the session that had the original error
> left her in the equivalent of WRKLNK '/directory/dir/*'  which kept
> her from copying to '/directory/dir/directory/dir/' - if that makes
> any sense.
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> my question is, is there any place to look at a job and determine the
> level of IFS directory it is currently sitting at?
>
> or any other ideas why this error caused that session to be unusable
> for CPYTOIMPF?
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> Thanks,
>
> Rick
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