Re: Saved .CSV file to IFS becomes .TMP with different name

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Some applications, chrome for instance when downloading, will create a
temporary file to save data too and then once writing is finished will
rename it to the actual name chosen.

Renaming a file, in most OS's, requires appropriate authority to the
directory in addition to the file itself.

For IBM i, "the user must have object management (*OBJMGT) authority to the
object to be renamed, and write and execute (*WX) authority to the
directory that contains the object."

So you might double check that.

Though as far as I see, the same authorities would have been needed to
create the temporary file in the first place.  The only other thing I can
think to check is if somehow the object is getting created with "restricted
rename and unlink" attribute set.  That should be visible when looking at
the file attributes.  Why it would be being set I don't know.

HTH,
Charles



On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 8:03 AM Stephen Coyle <stephenfcoyle@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a spreadsheet that with a button push will save the data to a
> folder in the IFS as a CSV file.
> This works fine for everyone but one particular user.
> It doesn't seem to be an authority issue or a connection problem to
> the IFS as a file does get saved.
> The problem is that for this user the file is saved with a temporary
> name and a TMP extension.
> For everyone else using this process the file is saved as a CSV and
> named correctly.
> We then have a job that monitors the IFS folder and processes the file
> accordingly.
> But that monitor job is looking for a specific filename so the TMP
> file is ignored.
>
> I should clarify that the file name and extension look correct within
> windows file explorer.
> But when I look at the logs from the IFS monitor job it looks like
> this:
> 2024-08-26-13.27.38.984944       *STMF
> /Import/COLineCuts/ECB285C8.tmp     CREATED     855061/QUSER/QZLSFILET
>
> Does anyone have an idea why all that is left from the export/save
> operation from Excel is a TMP file?
> My manual fix so far has been to cut the file out and paste it right
> back to the same folder to be processed.
>
> Thanks for any info,
> - Steve
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