Re: Examples of using IFS api's

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 13 November 2001 5:53 pm, Giri Gopal wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Is there a site with documentation as to the usage of IFS api calls in
> RPGIV?. What I want to do is do a merge of some files into one file. My
> application writes files during a business event. Each event creates
> it's own file. At a periodic time I want to go merge all these event
> files into one file. If any one has ideas or samples I will appreciate
> it.
>
>
> Thanks
> GG

If you don't manage to get info on the IFS apis, you could 'cheat' and
use the QShell utilities. I use the common *nix cat, head, tail, echo,
etc command to manipulate files on the IFS. It's easy to do in CL or RPG
by executing a series of QSH CMD('cat filex >> bigfile') type commands.

Regards, Martin
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