RE: Bypassing or passing signon info

Thank you all for your input. We wound up using the CPYTOIMPF file thereby
creating a tab delimited file on 5.2. We had to use an X'05' for the field
delimiter to get that. 5.3 and above supports an *TAB option but 5.2 does
not. Now we can just pull the file as-is without using the DTF function

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Subject: Re: Bypassing or passing signon info


John Candidi wrote:

Ok. If I have a physical file that is outputted from a AS/400 query, can I
copy that using CPYTOIMPF command?
 

A physical file is a physical file.  Files created by Query/400 are 
externally described just as if they had been created using DDS or SQL.  
So there's no reason this wouldn't work.  People here connect to such 
files all day long using ODBC, which is not the same thing but, again, 
points up the fact that a file is a file.


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