Hi,
Thanks for the responses!
Sean,
I think we will try this, I'm sure it will work for us.
Rob,
We were actually considering doing it manually with a mapped Windows drive, although the first time would be huge!
Scott,
Your comment about creation date v last modified makes a lot of sense. I will discuss that with the business owners of the files. We may be OK with creation date though as we are just going to move them to a different directory (to exclude from the backup), not delete them.
Thanks
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subject: Re: Move IFS files based on date
Ok, you're running this once a month.
What is this worth to you to automate it?
For example, you could go into iNav. Sort the contents of the 'from'
directory by any choice of 'create date', 'change date', etc. Select the
dates you want, highlight those rows and move the suckers.
Or, you could read Scott Klement's IFS APIs and read the directory, save
the object, move the object, next.
Could even take it to an extreme and as part of the move, add it to a zip,
jar or some related file.
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from: "Porterfield, Sean" <SPorterfield@xxxxxxxx<mailto:SPorterfield@xxxxxxxx>>
subject: RE: Move IFS files based on date
As an example response, I have the following in a shell script that is on the job scheduler to be run through QP2SHELL:
find /tmp/sq* -mtime +21 -exec rm {} \;
That deletes /tmp/sq* if it's older than 21 days. You could use mv instead of rm to move it somewhere else. You could probably do something clever with date calculations if you need to match a month specifically rather than "older than x days"
Command : CALL PGM(QP2SHELL) PARM('/QOpenSys/usr/bin/sh' 'myscript.sh')
Other methods I tried failed due to the number of files found.
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from: Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
subject: Re: Move IFS files based on date
I don't know an easy way to do this based on creation date, but if
you're willing to use the last modified/changed date, then it should be
pretty easy to do with QShell.
Actually, I wonder if the last modified date wouldn't be a better idea,
anyway -- you'd want to back it up if it has been modified, wouldn't
you? Unless things are never modified after they are created -- in
which case, it wouldn't matter which date you used, they'd always be the
same, right?
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