IFS Questions


IFS Listing
Is there an easy way to get a full listing of the complete IFS? Guy

Answer Question   |  February 6, 2013  7:59 PM
IFS, IFS Commands
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435 pts.

Deleting IFS files
Would anyone be able to help me with the following code? I modified it to delete entries in a folder older that 35 days from today’s date when the program is run. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer. PGM DCL &TODAY *CHAR 6 DCL &TODAY2 *CHAR 6 DCL &MBRDATE *CHAR 10 ADDLIBLE [...]

Answer Question   |  January 17, 2013  7:37 PM
IFS, IFS Folder
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145 pts.

Deleting IFS records after so many days
Can anyone provide CL code that would delete records within a date range? I would like to delete entries, say-that are 35 days old from the IFS.

Answer Question   |  January 14, 2013  7:32 PM
AS/400, CL Commands, IFS
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135 pts.

Grant Authority to directory in root directory
Hi All, How do I grant authority for selected users to access a directory we have built in the root directory containing a transmittal file? I used WRKLNK, but there is no authority access like when you have a folder. Thanks!

Answer Question   |  October 17, 2012  12:34 PM
Authority, IFS, iSeries AS/400
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185 pts.

Breaking a text file on number of pages criteria in IFS.
I have a text file on IFS which has 5500 pages and i want to break it in 1000 pages segments . Please suggest how can i accomplish this task ? Is there any unix or qshell command through which i can do this..

Answer Question   |  September 1, 2012  4:25 PM
AS400 - STRQSH, IFS, Qshell
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420 pts.

MMAIL – Insert image (logo) held on IFS
Has anyone succeeded in including an image held on the IFS on an MMAIL email ? I can show an image held onthe web but not on the IFs.

Answer Question   |  April 16, 2012  8:35 AM
IFS, ios v5r4, MMAIL
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380 pts.

FTP a file from the IFS
I have a .CSV file on the IFS that I want to FTP out to another server(not ours).  I am running the STRTCPFTP command from a clp program.  Input file is overridden to a text file in the same library.  I try to Put /home/folder/filename.csv Their server replys with: File name format not valid.  Use [...]

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2012  11:01 PM
.CSV files, IFS, iSeries AS/400
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1,380 pts.

AUTL security over IFS objects conundrum
We are still running V5r4, and I’m currently wrestling with securing objects in /Root of the IFS. Objects are required to be read only in normal circumstances. an application allows a user to copy the object (document) and removes the readonly attribute from the object using CHMOD called from RPGLE, and CHGAUT The problem is [...]

Answer Question   |  March 19, 2012  10:21 AM
AS/400, IFS, Security
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5,505 pts.

IFS & PDFs
Hi Guys, I have a whole lot of pdf files stored on the IFS. These are historical data. I wish to display tags for these documents as a subfile on green screen (emulation).  And when the user selects one of these, I need to display the pdf document on the PC (obviously using Adobe). Can [...]

Answer Question   |  November 11, 2011  5:40 AM
IFS, PDF
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980 pts.

CPYTOIMPF
I want to copy a spool file to the IFS.  I tried ===> CPYTOIMPF FROMFILE(FILES/SPRINT198) TOSTMF(‘print/testprint.txt’) STMFCCSI D(*STDASCII) RCDDLM(*CRLF) DTAFMT(*FIXED)        and I got garbage –                               

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  5:15 PM
AS/400 Spool Files, CPYTOIMPF, IFS, IFS Commands
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5 pts.

AS/400 PF to IFS with CCSID 935
I have a file on the as/400 which contains mixed language data.  Some fields are coded as ‘O’ to accomodate DBCS Chinese Characters.  This all works fine.  If I pull the data up in Excel using the iseries add in, it comes up great.  I need to take this file and place it on an [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  4:20 PM
AS/400 administration, CCSID, IFS, Physical Files
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10 pts.

Problem in updating a IFS file content..
Hi , i have a text file in IFS which have some data. Now after reading i want to replace all occurance of xyz with abc and update the ifs file .Everything is working fine except updation . The problem is with pointer setting , everytime the data is appended in file rather than replacing [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  3:41 PM
AS/400 file specification, IFS, IFS Commands, RPGLE
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420 pts.

Permissions error trying to access the IFS
This worked for years now suddenly doesn’t. I’m reading a folder on the IFS via a UNC path (\ibmserverifsfolder) from a .NET application. Now I get a permission denied error. The Windows server user that is being used is Network Service. This is the normal user to use for file IO ops. What user does [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  3:27 PM
.NET, .NET applications, AS/400, IFS, Windows Server 2003
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15 pts.

Algorithm for parsing a RTF file ? anyone? ?
I need to extract the user entered text from RTF files held within the IFS. Microsoft have a quaint ‘specification’ which incorporates several ‘standards’ for the syntax of control words. Does anyone have any RTF reading code that will run on an IBM i? – doesn’t need to produce a print, or do anything but [...]

Answer Question   |  June 20, 2011  3:04 PM
IBM i, IFS, RPG, RPGLEPGM, RTF, V5R4
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5,505 pts.

IFS/Folder size
I would like to know how to find the the size of individual IFS link and also Folder.  Is there any tool or script for that ?

Answer Question   |  May 6, 2011  7:20 PM
IFS, IFS Folder, IFS record size, V5R4M5
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25 pts.

AS400 – FTP
Hi I have a file in my IFS folder with size 2GB.I want to move or copy this file to another server…is there any command in i series to exceute other than FTP ing the file .Please let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks

Answer Question   |  March 16, 2011  11:53 AM
AS/400 FTP, AS400 Data Definitions, IFS, IFS Commands, IFS Folder
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335 pts.

Mount_IFS — Does anyone know of this utility?
We recently heard reference to a MOUNTIFS command or utility.  Does anyone use this command or know where we can find more info? Our goal is to create linkage between the IBM i and a Wintel server to transfer spool files converted to PDF on the IBM i.  Customers can then view their files via [...]

Answer Question   |  February 14, 2011  12:34 AM
i5/OS, IFS, Mount IFS, Wintel Server
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5,525 pts.

iSeries IFS on MAC client
We a transitioning to a MAC client environment and need to map our IFS Folders to the MAC. However we can only see 32 files/folders at any given time. As one is deleted on the IFS another is shown on the MAC. Always 32. Cannot see any settings on Netserver that would cause this limitation. [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2011  2:58 PM
IFS, IFS Folder, iSeries, iSeries Access for Windows
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15 pts.

Major performance issue with Windows 7, Office 2007 and documents in the IFS
I’m stumped… Anybody else having (or had) major performance issues with Windows 7, Office 2007 and documents in the IFS of a System i? If you’ve been able to resolve the problem, please share with me. I do not have this problem with XP or Windows 2000 PCs. I even have an XP PC with Office [...]

Answer Question   |  February 16, 2012  4:00 PM
IFS, NetServer, System i, Windows 7 performance
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40 pts.

FTP from QTXTSRC
How do you data in a QTXTSRC member on the IFS in order to FTP it from a dos prompt or in a CLP?  I created a stream file but I am receiving “File not found” when I run the get command. 

Answer Question   |  December 17, 2010  7:05 AM
FTP, FTP QTXTSRC data, IFS, IFS Commands, V5R4
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15 pts.