RE: Access OS400 shared folder from windows

["Burns, Bryan" <Bryan_Burns@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vern,
Thanks for the excellent explanation.
Bryan


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces+bryan_burns=echo-usa.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+bryan_burns=echo-usa.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:21 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Access OS400 shared folder from windows


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 does 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