Re: Looking for help with migrating DTFs for use with ACS

Hi Vern,

As to the associations, there are examples online on creating a script or a registry import file to automate that function.
A Google search: "registry script to change file associations" brought up several resources.

Here's a link that seems promising: https://superuser.com/questions/406985/programatically-associate-file-extensions-with-application-on-windows

IIRC, the DTF and FDF files are all plain text. If you can't find an already built solution, it's shouldn't be too difficult to roll your own.

-mark

On 12/25/2018 1:05 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

Y'all

I'm asking here before going to IBM support = just in case someone has a good answer - no problem calling support, just came here first.

We have a lot of DTF files - IBM i Access data transfer files. Users are not able to use them if they have the new client, ACS. That's known now but wasn't at first.

Besides that, PC guys set up file associations to Adobe Acrobat!! DTF, FDF, all that!

The whole DTF thing has long since been a wild-west thing here, we'd like to eliminate them almost completely and replace with an SQL-based product on IBM i. But that is no small task - we have hundreds if not thousands of them on various servers, Windows and IBM i and ????


OK, so there's the menu item to set up file associations. Am going to have fight that battle, unless we can get the Client Enablement to change the setup they install = don't ask, yes, I know, this is supposed to be deployed, still, the CE team knows nothing other than to install things - it causes all manner of problems, I have to say!!

So file associations will be taken care of 1 user at a time. On to the main thing.


In the ACS main app I found the menu item to migrate DTF to DTFX - the new file extensions. So I tried it on one DTF and got a message that the DTF was created in too old a version of Client Access or whatever Access, so the migration tool couldn't convert it. Not cool!

There was NO information on what to do about that. So, **** Is there a "simple" way to change these old beasts to a newer "version-created-in" ****?

And I'm probably going to put in an RFE, but that will take time, and we are getting trashed because it's "...so hard to get data from the AS/400..." - yes, that's the name users use - we're working on that, so no comments needed, thank you very much!!

Help much appreciated!
Vern