Re: Help with IFS files

["Norm Dennis" <wmss@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The best solution for me was to create the file in my application data library
and use CPYTOIMPF to place the file in the IFS.
Works well in my circumstance.

Norm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Giri Gopal" <GiriGopal@bcginK.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, 2 November 2001 5:25
Subject: Help with IFS files


Hello:


I am using RPGIV to write to IFS file system. Another PC based application
is has a mapped drive to this folder. This application is monitoring for a
file every 2 minutes. The problem is I open the IFS file for ouput in my RPG
program, and while I am writing to this IFS file, the other system sees the
file and grabs it even before I am done writing. More importantly the other
application deletes the file once it has copied this file. They use FTP to
get this file.


Question is: How can I open the file and have a lock until I am done
writing?


Thanks for your help in advance.
Giri

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