Re: Is there such a things as DDM for the IFS?

Paul Jackson wrote:

Hopefully this doesn't sound like too dumb of a question but I am
pretty inexperienced when it comes to using the IFS, but have lately
come across a programming challenge where an application that runs on
our multiple iSeries boxes needs to write to a common directory within
the IFS that exists on only one of the systems.

In other words the systems where the IFS directory does not reside
need a way to virtually write to the target IFS directory similar to
the way that remote systems can add records to DDM files to populate
the "real" physical file.

Paul:

Two possibilities come to mind immediately. First is the /QFileSvr.400 file system. In a network that contains multiple iSeries systems, the /QFileSvr.400 file system provides a basic access from one iSeries IFS to another. Second is NFS. The iSeries with the actual folder would be the NFS server; all others would be NFS clients and "mount" the directory that was exported from the server.

I used NFS to write into a directory on an AS/400 in Sacramento, and the physical directory was exported from an HP box back near Boston. This was some nine years ago.

Tom Liotta