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

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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