RE: Retrieving unknown file name

["Haas, Matt" <Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

This may be an overkill sort of way to do this but there is a directory 
processing API that I'm pretty sure can look anywhere in the IFS (of which the 
libraries are a part). I don't recall using it to go against a library but we 
use it all the time for processing stuff in the root file system.

There's an example of this code in the RPG/IV Sorcerer's Redbook. The example 
just prints a list of objects but modifying it to do something else isn't 
difficult.

One other method we've used in the past is to put these types of files in a 
shared folder (/QDLS in the IFS) and use the DSPFLR command to create an 
outfile with all the files in a given folder. Our process used a CL command to 
read through the outfile and manipulate the file as needed.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: John Furniss [mailto:jfurniss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 3:40 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Retrieving unknown file name


List,
    We have a need to find the name of a file and copy it to a PF as a
new member. A company will be sending us a file that will get FTPed to
QGPL as P21nnnnnnn, where nnnnnnn is the number of seconds since
01/01/1970.
    How can we determine the name of the file? I checked the forum but
CHKOBJ was as close as I found. Can I check for the existance of P21*?

    TIA,