Re: CPYTOSTMF and Codepage problem

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ummm... have you tried specifying the STMFCODPAG parameter?  The default 
for this parameter is *STMF, which means "Get it from the stream file", 
which obviously wouldn't work if the stream file doesn't exist yet.

Adding the STMFCODPAG parameter to your CPYTOSTMF command seems a lot 
simpler than manually pre-creating the file...


Steve Moland wrote:
> I have an almost canned process for copy an ISeries file to a PC share 
> folder using CPYTOSTMF so that once the file is sent on DVD to another site 
> that it can be added to an existing ISeries file using CPYFRMSTMF. The file 
> contains mostly binary data so no conversion is desired.
>
> To get the file to the PC I use the following:  (This CL is a test process 
> I'm using today to try to solve the problem)
>
> CPYTOSTMF  FROMMBR('qsys.lib/JUNK.lib/tcodepage.file/CATDAT2.mbr')
>   TOSTMF('/CDPREPDVD/tcodepage.dat')
>            STMFOPT(*REPLACE) CVTDTA(*NONE) ENDLINFMT(*FIXED)
>
> The PROBLEM is, if there is no existing PC file named "tcodepage.dat" the 
> copy fails with this message.
> CCSID conversion could not be performed.
> Object not copied.
>
> So I just create an empty file using any PC file editor and the process 
> works fine.
>
> In production the copy just uses the previous runs existing file and all the 
> records are replaced.
>
> Everything works fine until a human gets involved and sometimes clears the 
> PC folder after burning a DVD.
>
> I'd like to have CPYTOSTMF create a proper file which it says it will do. 
> the HELP information on STMFOPT fields says it will create a file if the 
> file is not there.  I can not get it to do that and I think I've tried all 
> the pertinent combination of parameters.
>
> Using DSPFD on the ISeries file yields  this    CCSID      65535