Re: Mass Change Authority in IFS

[CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

  Considering the implementation of recursive shell requests, for 
/large/ requests [i.e. with *many* files and directories] had at one 
time ended with a failure to complete [per resources exhausted or 
similar] or worse when terminating also wreaking havoc with the 
system by terminating system auditing [bad enough by itself, but 
considering that if the safety of the QAUDENDACN = *PWRDWNSYS was 
enabled, the system would then also go down], I always have used the 
CL commands or similar via IFSTOOLS.  Perhaps someone knows if on 
the recent releases the implementation of -r is no longer failing 
[or taking excessive resources] as compared to the same request 
effected in a CL command using SUBTREE(*ALL)?

Regards, Chuck

Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
> I know CHGOWN works, and it is a CL command, however;
>
> There are some things that are just a whole lot easier to do and 
> in some respects faster and more accurate in a shell script using
> Unix commands. Call the shell script from CL if you would like,
> but since you can achieve REXX like string manipulation etc in a 
> shell script, you can achieve a lot more in script than you can
> from CL alone. My argument is not that the IBM i commands don't
> work, they do, they are just do not offer the flexibility and
> control that a shell script might offer. For one time shots, stay
> with the CL command, but the moment you find yourself doing the
> same task over, consider a shell script.
>
> There is a very good book: "Qshell for iSeries" by Ted Holt and 
> Fred Kulack (MCPress) as well as the several articles that Scott 
> Klement has written to show how to use this powerful tool.
>
> On 3/9/2010 7:36 AM, Bob Voltz wrote:
> > Thanks to all...CHGAUT worked like a champ.
> >
> > Now...is there a way to do a mass CHGOBJOWN on IFS files?