Re: QSH using QTEMP

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Does V5R4 allow ls commands to an outfile in qtemp?

Every release allows ls commands to an outfile in QTEMP.  But you can't do 
it using QShell's redirection operators, you have to use OVRDBF.

You see, The QSHELL commands run in a separate, background job.  If they 
write files directly to QTEMP, it would not be accessible to your job 
because there's a different copy of the QTEMP library for each job on the 
system.  So it wouldn't do any good.

However, any job can use OVRDBF to redirect STDOUT to a file.  That 
happens in the current job, so it can direct stuff to QTEMP.

For example, this will direct the output from LS to a file in QTEMP:

PGM
      CRTPF QTEMP/DIRLIST RCDLEN(5000)

      OVRDBF FILE(STDOUT) TOFILE(QTEMP/DIRLIST)
      QSH CMD('ls -l')
      DLTOVR FILE(STDOUT)
ENDPGM