Re: QHFGETSZ

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom

The QHF* APIs are for a long-not-useful file system concept. You should 
use the stat() function instead.

Vern

Tom Deskevich wrote:
> I have a program that checks images on a NT server via QNTC to see if the
> size is zero.
> This is a further test after checking for the existence of the image.
> What I do is a DSPLNK, output to a special outque, then do a CPYSPLF, read
> at the file and look at the size attribute.
> The problem is that the job bombs, creating too many spool file entries.
> I think that an OVRPRTF with MAXRCDS(*NOMAX) may keep this from happening.
> But I always hesitate in setting anything to *NOMAX, but if I have to, I
> will.
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> I did some research and found the API QHFSETSZ, but it seems it will only
> work on the QOPT and QDLS file systems.
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> Does anyone know a way to get the "Size of object data in bytes . . . . .
> :", or the equivalent without doing the DSPLNK?
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> I have not explored doing something on the NT server at all, everything runs
> on the as/400. 
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> TIA
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> Tom Deskevich
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