Re: IFS File Update

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can't remember whether this is doable or not but are you sure that this is even going to be practical Michael?  You won't be able to increase or decrease the size of any field even if you can do an in-situ.


On 2014-09-02, at 11:02 AM, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I need to update data in a stream file located in ths IFS (or on a QNTC
> share). I know I can read the data from the file, and then write to another
> file, and then delete/rename I guess, but I want to update in place. I
> don't want to use any procedures that add a CRLF. I'm thinking of using
> read() and write(), but I'm not sure how to handle the update. Probably
> pretty simple. Thanks!
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