Re: WRKLNK incorrect

[Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you sure that's the letter O and not the number 0?



date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 11:10:31 +1000
> from: Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: WRKLNK incorrect
>
> I had a problem yesterday where the cause is normally a directory in /tmp
> that is owned by a different profile - anyway this is not the issue.
>
> I ran the command
>
> wrklnk '/tmp/AO2387'
>
> Nothing was found - Object not found.  Object is /tmp/AO2387.
>
> So I used wrklnk '/tmp/AO*'
>
> This found other entries but not the one I was looking for..
>
> Ok maybe my thought of what was causing the error was wrong.
>
> Today I used EDTF - wanted to check the size of /tmp
>
> So I ran EDTF STMF('/')
>
> Then used 5=Display on the /tmp directory
>
> The searched for AO in the Name column and to my surprise there was a
> directory AO2387
>
> There were about 250,000 files in the /tmp directory
>
> Why does WRKLNK not find the file.  (I was using a profile with *ALLOBJ
> authority and the name was in uppercase)
>
> Thank you for any responses.
>
> Don
>
>
>
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