Re: Copying a PF to the IFS

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rolling your own IFS programs is relatively easy (see Scott's
tutorial) and should perform better than CPYTOSTMF. You would write
out the data with the separators, basically making a long string and
then writing it.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:31 AM, David FOXWELL <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I have a CL that uses CPYTOSTMF to a file in the IFS that is then converted to XLS format by a JAVA application. I've noticed that CPYTOSTMF seems to be extremely slow. The file copied has around 30 000 rows
>
>  Wouldn't I be better off if the PF copied never existed in the first place? I mean write directly to the IFS with the write() API ?
>
>  If so, how would I compose each line of data that is to be written ? Do I have to concatenate each column with a separator into the line that is to be written?
>
>  The JAVA application expects the hexadecimal character "0B" to tell it where the column separators are.
>
>  Thanks.
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