Re: copy from/to qntc

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,

Thanks for letting us know what ended up working for you.

For my own information, some questions if you don't mind:

1) did you try CPYFRMSTMF as I suggested and find that it did not work? 
 I know that CPYFRMSTMF is often used to populate save files.

2) Why did you specify TOCCSID(*CALC) on your CPY command?  I suspect 
it's ignored because DTAFMT(*BINARY) is the default on the CPY command. 
But to someone who doesn't know that, the TOCCSID(*CALC) would seem like 
a curious thing to do.  Translating save file data between CCSIDs makes 
no sense.




On 6/5/2015 1:23 PM, tim wrote:
> i ended up using cpy command instead.
>
> CPY OBJ('/qntc/10.0.0.149/iseries/thu/ourlibrary')
>      TOOBJ('/qsys.lib/qgpl.lib/ftplib.file')
>      TOCCSID(*CALC)
>      REPLACE(*YES)
>
>
> On 6/5/2015 11:48 AM, Scott Klement wrote:
> > Tim,
> >
> > Are you sure that it's valid to copy data into a save file (savf)
> > using the 'cp' command?
> >
> > I know that under the covers if I were writing a program to write to a
> > save file, I'd have to use record-based I/O with a particular record
> > length or it would give me an error.  The "cp" command is the Unix
> > copy, which normally would have no concept whatsoever of record-based
> > I/O, as Unix systems don't have record-based files.
> >
> > This is all speculation, of course, I haven't looked into the
> > internals of the 'cp' command on IBM i...  I'm just guessing that they
> > haven't added special code to account for save files.
> >
> > Have you considered trying CPYTOSTMF/CPYFRMSTMF instead of 'cp'? That
> > might be an easy solution if I'm right...
> >
> >
> > On 6/5/2015 8:24 AM, tim wrote:
> > > we have a backup process that copies data to QNTC as follows:
> > >
> > > CHGVAR  VAR(&TODIR) VALUE('/qntc/10.0.0.149/iseries/thu/ourlibrary'
> > >
> > > CLRSAVF QGPL/FTPLIB
> > >
> > > SAVLIB     LIB(ourlibrary) DEV(*SAVF) SAVF(QGPL/FTPLIB) +
> > >                          SAVACT(*SYSDFN) SAVACTWAIT(30 30 30) +
> > >                          SAVACTMSGQ(QSYSOPR) ACCPTH(*YES) +
> > >                          OMITOBJ((CSFH) (CF)) +
> > > OUTPUT(*PRINT)
> > >
> > > chgvar &c ('cp /qsys.lib/qgpl.lib/ftplib.file' *bcat &TODIR)
> > > STRQSH  CMD(&c)
> > >
> > > now when i try to copy the data back i get following msg:
> > >
> > > STRQSH CMD('cp /qntc/10.0.0.149/iseries/thu/ourlibrary
> > > /qsys.lib/qgpl.lib/ftplib.file')
> > >
> > > cp: 001-2104 Error found reading from file
> > > /qntc/10.0.0.149/iseries/thu/ourlibrary.
> > > The value specified for the argument is not correct.
> > > Press ENTER to end terminal session.
> > >
> > > any ideas?