Re: IFS files and VARPG

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please give a better example.  I am not following you.  The answer (if I 
understand the question) is Yes, a VARPG program can see both the IFS 
and DB2.  In fact it can see and write to any folder or directory that 
the workstation can see.

Here is an example of what i did with one application:

We read the customer name & address file on the iSeries and built a list 
 of e-mail addresses in a Windows window.  The list could be edited, 
copied, and pasted (just like in Notepad).  Then a press button could be 
pressed and the VARPG program would write a file directly to the MS 
Exchange server, laid out for MS Exchange mailing groups.  This resulted 
in a new or revised mailing group that was ready to use by Microsoft 
products.  We used it to initially create a subscription list for news 
groups.

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Thank you.  My basic question was going to be something like if VARPG 
> bangs out local file support with no major tricks then why can't RPGLE get 
> to the IFS without api's?  However it looks like you'd have to rewrite all 
> the current F specs to use DB2 files if IBM was going to adopt the VARPG 
> methodology.  And that would be a major blow to backward compatibility.
>
> Oh well, Scott's IFS examples are pretty straightforward anyway.
>
> Rob Berendt