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Bryan

When I say IFS, I mean the whole thing but generally not QSYS.LIB - however, you can use path names to refer to QSYS library objects - the native file system on the iSeries, where commands and physical files and programs live. Every file system has its own characteristics - the root file system, which most mean when they say IFS, is case-insensitive and can have long filenames - QDLS has to have 8.3 names - QOpenSys is like Unix - case-sensitive. All have their uses - although I shy away from QDLS if at all possible. All these other file systems branch off the root of the IFS, hence the confusion in terms, perhaps.

You can't drag/drop a CSV file to a PF - they have completely different ways of holding the data. CSV = means comma-separated value or some such - PF does not separate fields with commas. You need a converting process, probably the CPYFRMIMPF command. Or use IFS APIs that let you read the file directly and parse it and then you take the values into a record in a PF.

You MIGHT get away with dragging a raw text file with data in all the right places to a PF in a mapped network drive in Windows - have not tried this that I remember - heh - and you must have no packed or binary fields in the PF. Alpha and zoned are OK - this would be like using FTP directly into an existing PF. But don't use FTP for a CSV - it will not work at all right.

HTH
Vern



At 07:59 AM 11/15/2007, you wrote:

Jim,
I myself am trying to learn about the IFS. When someone says IFS and doesn't specify a file system, what do she mean? QSYS.LIB? Isn't QDLS one of the 11 file systems in the IFS?

I'm working on transferring data from an Excel CSV file to a PF using a CL command; but if I could drag and drop the CSV to the "IFS" that would work too.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Bryan Burns
ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jim Essinger
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:39 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Access OS400 shared folder from windows


Marco,

Why are you using QDLS? QDLS limits you to old DOS naming conventions of 8
characters (or was it 10) with a 3 letter extension. Using the IFS might be
a better way to go. Your error might be a invalid name for the QDLS folder.

What are you trying to copy and how are you getting it there?
What version of the operating system are you on?

Jim

On Nov 14, 2007 5:00 PM, Silva Marco <Marco.Silva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I create a share folder in QDLS. I can reach it from windows, I can even
> delete folders, but I tried to copy a file into there and it didn't
> allow me. The error was, DOS command error.
>
>
> I have full permitions.
>
> Thanks,
> Marco
>
>

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