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Re: Using CPYTOARCF to create zip files to send to Linux box

As already mentioned, zipping really isn't a big issue...

More important, how are you creating the files in the first place?

Make sure they are being written as ASCII/UTF-8...

The Linux box is unlikely to understand EDCDIC. ;)

Charles

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 2:11 PM Laurence Chiu <lchiu7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That's very helpful thank you. Once I get back to the office I'm going to
ask our iseries specialist to try to create the script and create a zip
file so we can transfer it to a Windows box and see if we can unzip it.

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020, 3:55 AM Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Add capital M to cf - that suppresses the inclusion of the manifest,
which is used only by Java that I know of.

And if you have several files in a directory, you'll need more - here's
what we use -

qsh cmd('jar cfM "test.zip" -C /path-of-files-to-zip .')

Here is the M to suppress the manifest. It also has the -C to change
directory to where the files are you want to compress, and the period is
a wildcard to include everything in that directory - I assume this
wildcard could be any generic file specification.

The full quotes around test.zip might not be needed, they do work when
test.zip is a more fully-qualified path name for the zip file.

HTH
Vern

On 10/16/2020 2:29 AM, Niels Liisberg wrote:
In you cl code - simply put:

qsh cmd('jar cf test.zip test.csv')

just check the 'cf' parameter and make it work for you usecase

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 2:33 AM Vernon Hamberg <
vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

Laurence

You can definitely use JAR - we do it all the time to create XLSX
files,
which are basically PK-zipped archives.

We wrap JAR in a QShell command - use the option to not create the
manifest - it's something like -mcf or -Mcf or the like.

HTH
Vern

On 10/15/2020 3:06 PM, Laurence Chiu wrote:
1. Found the jar utility and asked one of our IBMi users to check if
it's
installed. It is. Can the jar utility be executed from a CL script
which
is
what we need?
2. Can't send directly to the Linux box because it's in the cloud and
the
Power server on the internal network won't allow that. The Windows
box
however over a VPN

But seems that I have a solution

Thanks

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 8:45 AM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Why bother with the Wiindoze box? Just use theIBM i to send direct
to
the
Linux box.



On Oct 15, 2020, at 3:27 PM, Laurence Chiu <lchiu7@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I need to transfer some 20G of text files each night to a Linuz
server
in a
remote location. The plan is to zip all the files up, use a Windows
server
to access the Power server (on 7.3) via SSH, grab the zip file and
then
SFTP to a remote location. That Linux remote location would then
unzip
the
files and make them ready for an ETL process into a Data warehouse.

Some of the non iSeries guys were asking if the zip file created by
IBMi
would be compatible with standard zip files and I think they would
be I
thought I would check here first.

Thanks for any feedback.
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