Re: How to provide an RPG ILE program with a list of files in a QNTC directory -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: How to provide an RPG ILE program with a list of files in a QNTC directory
From: Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 13:05:03 -0500
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That sounds like a heck of a lot more trouble than just using the IFS APIs
directly. Of course, we don't know those APIs are *verboten*.

date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 08:50:47 -0600

from: Jack Woehr via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] How to provide an RPG ILE program with a list
of files in a QNTC directory

If you descend into PASE, you can use Python to:

- get a directory listing
- write it to a database file

I do this sort of thing to return output and error codes from PASE to
legacy code.

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