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  3. November 2012

Re: filestats.st_objtype

Hi Rob,

You could change st_objtype to 10A, and increase the subsequent reserved field by 1 position to eliminate the null, if you like.

Personally, I don't typically use the objtype field, as I'm used to dealing with this stuff on Unix boxes, and the objtype field is a feature that only exists on IBM i.

I would be careful, though... I know there are things like *DDIR and *DSTMF that are very similar to dir/stmf, and you may want to handle those in your program as well. I wonder what the value of checking the object type is?


On 11/21/2012 9:44 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
filestats.st_objtype is defined as 11 characters long. Seems a little
wonky to me. I would think 10 would suffice. %trim trims only blanks,
not nulls. The 11th position is a null. Confirmed that with
wSt_objtype=%trim(filestats.st_objtype);
IFSIO_H
D statds DS qualified
D BASED(Template)
...
D st_objtype 11A



Rob Berendt


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