RE: Purging files in the IFS by date (aka which Scott Klement utilityto use :)

Another option would be QRYIFSLIB. We use this frequently and it works
well :)

http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/SLKBase.nsf/0/3976fed8ab10134b862568b60071c
cd3?OpenDocument

Terry Winchester
Programmer/Analyst
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis Rodriguez
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 11:36 AM
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Subject: Re: Purging files in the IFS by date (aka which
Scott Klement utilityto use :)

Use RTVDIRINF and process the output?

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5 iSeries


On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Charles Wilt
<charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

What's the currently recommended way of purging IFS files by date?

I found an old utility from Scott Klement, that comes

really close to

perfect. The only issue is it purges everything in a given

directory,

I'd like to be able to pass a wildcard file name. I haven't look at
it in detail, but I suspect that modifying it to process file name
wildcards would be non-trivial. Then again, perhaps not if

I can find

an good example of comparing a wild card value to another string,
(regex perhaps? but might be overkill).

http://systeminetwork.com/article/purge-ifs-files-without-qshell

I also found some examples where Scott is using the QSHELL find
command to an output file to purge.

This post is related to my other post regarding "Calling CL

program to

delete .ZIP file in IFS as part of an SQL Delete"

As I discussed the issue with the other developer, we realized that
there's no benefit to tying the purge of the .ZIP files in the IFS
with the records deleted the DB table. So we've decided

that the best

thing would be to have a nice generic PURGEIFSF command

that we could

uses anywhere...

Thus this question. :)

Thanks in advance!
Charles
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