Re: How to tell *FILE object is PF-DTA or PF-SRC

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/06/2005, at 5:13 AM, Ben_Pforsich@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I need to be able to determine if a physical file is a data or source
> physical file in RPG IV.  I thought the QUSROBJD API could be used for
> this, but I don't see how.  The attribute returned is always "PF"
> regardless.  Any ideas?

*SRC or *DATA is a file attribute rather than an object attribute. You 
need to use a file description interface to get this information. The 
file definition header section of the QDBRTVFD API will give you this 
information. The MBR0100 format of the QUSRMBRD API will also give this 
information and is easier to process than QDBRTVFD. You could also run 
DSPFD to an outfile and process that or call a CL program to run 
RTVMBRD and return the FILETYPE.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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