Re: Writing to the IFS - Errors!

["Peter Dow" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike,

Interesting.  Two ideas -- instead of swallowing the errors on the open's,
give some indication of a problem; and show us the definitions of your data
(FileDesc may be getting zapped if it's part of a data structure).

hth,
Peter Dow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Silvers" <msilvers@HBS-INC.COM>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 8:00 AM
Subject: Writing to the IFS - Errors!


> I am trying to write to the IFS.  Here is the situation...  I create a new
> IFS file, close it, then reopen it (to resolve codepage issues).  I then
> open a different IFS file and save the contents to a variable.  I
manipulate
> the contents and write the variable to the open IFS file.  I then read a
> different IFS file and save it to a variable.  I manipulate it and write
to
> the original IFS file.  I am trying to merge several IFS files into one
> large IFS file.
>
> I open the files with no problems.  When I try to write to the file, I
> constantly get error 3450 (Descriptor Not Valid).  The file was opened
with
> no problems, but I can not write to it.  The documentation at IBM's site
is
> not very good for this error.
>
> Any Ideas?