Re: Zipping files woes and evils. :)

FYI, IBM is aware of limitation of full directory path and will be looking
into it. Anything else you would like to see should be done via request
for enhancements (RFE)[1].

Also, latest PTFs for the CPYTOARCF/CPYFRMARCF support is:

R720 SI68881
R730 SI68882

For unzipping, I have use jar command. Something like:

jar xvf xxxxxx.zip



[1] http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1015918


"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 04/18/2019
01:11:23 PM:

From: Jason Olson <josys36@xxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 04/18/2019 02:30 PM
Subject: Zipping files woes and evils. :)
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

There are times when you get so annoyed with IBM i that you just wanna

run

out of the room screaming. OK I'm being overdramatic here but I am kinda
annoyed by one thing in particular.

I used to use the zip utility from here,

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?
u=http-3A__uzaemon.d.dooo.jp_-23download&d=DwICAg&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-
siA1ZOg&r=1i-jGlz0-JTK1aLHcsU-ew&m=u-

QJU94ST1RiD_oLnEwaynTf1Fnl5A4GgybMb4deuwU&s=eVyqhfZ4fUZXmXFI_Cy8CjQGszXhPHQ0PugHfQ36VlI&e=

to zip and unzip .zip files on IBM i. However, that product has not

been

updated to the latest ZLIB in a long period of time. So when I noticed

that

IBM gave us the CPYTOARCF commands I was happy, but you can't supply

that a

password. And, you always get the full directory path in the .zip and

there

isn't a way to stop that that I know of.

So what do others do for their .zip files? Do you use a commerical

product

or are you using ZLIB with minizip included? Are you building your own?

I'd

love to know as I hate using 3rd party apps if I don't have to.