Re: [IBMiOSS] Python

Thanks Jack,

So you're talking about setting up to work with Python on my PC, but over an IFS directory that resides remotely in the IBM i IFS.

I was thinking of getting used to Python on my local PC, and then working with the IFS. I would get more comfortable with doing Python stuff first, but that sounds like it's simple enough to do.

My company would not stop it, they'd likely welcome it, as some of the younger guys were trying to use Python to replace the PHP setup they have for sending email and attachments, which was kind of cumbersome. M$ changing specs and formats for Excel and XML hasn't helped.

Long run, at some point if I got good enough, I'd do a how-to presentation for the group.

Thanks a million to all of you for your information.

--Alan


On 10/10/2021 12:17 PM, Jack Woehr via OpenSource wrote:

On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 8:15 AM Infodorado <infodorado@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 10/9/2021 8:48 PM, Jack Woehr via OpenSource wrote:

I should have mentioned that the tool for mounting IFS on your

workstation

filesystem is SSHFS

-- I assume this refers to setting up my PC to get a virtual IFS
directory local that will act remotely on IBM i? (-Or "mounts" the IFS
per se as another directory or drive?

sshfs mounts a remote system's directory on a directory mount point on the
local machine.

For instance, if I want my IFS home directory on MYIBMI.example.com to be
mounted to the extant and empty directory /home/jwoehr/mnt/myibmi on my
Linux or Mac box (syntax is different for Windows, but it works), I do:

sshfs myibmi.example.com:/home/JWOEHR /home/jwoehr/mnt/myibmi

... and then it's just like a local directory, can edit on it, etc.