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

To add to the excellent suggestions about QFileSvr.400 and NFS...
There's also symbolic links. For example, if your application needs a file to be in /usr/local/share and in actually the file should be on another computer, you can create a symbolic link between /usr/local/share/myfile.ext and /QFileSvr.400/otherserver.com/usr/local/share/myfile.ext

That way, you don't have to change the software. (Let me know if my explanation was unclear -- sometimes it's hard to figure out how much explanation is necessary)


Paul Jackson wrote:

Hello there,

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.

Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas about how I might accomplish
this task?

Thanks in advance,

Paul