Re: IFS add New Record

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Geraldo

Remember that IFS files do not have "records", in the way that physical 
files do. They certainly do not have anything like a record format.

Usually IFS files are processed with lines, if they are text files. 
These lines will often have a carriage return (CR) or line-feed (LF) or 
new-line (NL) - this depends on operating system, Unix may use one while 
Macintosh uses another, etc.

In any case, IFS files are stream files - just a stream of bytes, one 
after another. Any structure is something you impose on the bytes in 
your programs. Something like internal file descriptions, but we must 
not make the comparison too close - PFs as flat files still had a 
fixed-length record, while stream files do not.

Now that I've said that, it is possible to use RPG WRITE operations to 
send data to an IFS file - Barbara Morris has an example, I believe, 
using the Open Access methodology that we have now.

HTH
Vern

On 10/15/2014 12:00 PM, Gerardo Alberto Martinez Rosales wrote:
> Thx
> I will look SK tools.
>
> Thx very much!!!
>   On Oct 15, 2014 10:49 AM, "Gary Thompson" <gthompson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Gerardo,
> > One place to look for your answer is Scott Klement's tools.
> > You should have little trouble finding what you need because he has a kind
> > of
> > 'course of study' on reading/writing to/from the IFS.
> > We've used his stuff locally to help manage files on our IFS, but I've
> > never
> > done any updates directly to an IFS file, so I can't answer your question.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > Gerardo Alberto Martinez Rosales
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:34 AM
> > To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
> > Subject: IFS add New Record
> >
> > Hi..
> > Everybody.
> >
> > How can I do to add a new record into file. This file is in IFS.
> >
> > Actually I am using
> >
> > Eval
> > FD=('/home/Desinf/file.text':o_creat+o_trunc+o_wronly:rw*owner+rw*group+r)
> >
> > After that I am using Write
> >
> > What parameter I need to change to add new record to file?
> >
> > Regards.
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