Re: QFileSvr.400 usage

[Tom Liotta <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

rob wrote:

> CPY OBJ('/QSYS.LIB/ROBDELME.LIB/DELETEME.FILE/DELETEME.MBR')
>        TODIR('/QFileSvr.400/GDIHQ/QSYS.LIB/ROBDELME.LIB') 
> CPFA0A2-Information passed to this operation was not valid. 

This one is getting the DELETEME.MBR object and trying to copy it to 
the .../ROBDELME.LIB path. Members can't go in libraries; they must 
go into files. I.e., from the IFS perspective, a library is a 
container (directory) which can contain either objects of certain 
types or a certain type of subdirectory. Those subdirectories have 
the .FILE extension. A library container is not allowed to hold members.

> CPY OBJ('/QSYS.LIB/ROBDELME.LIB/DELETEME.FILE/DELETEME.MBR') 
>        TODIR('/QFileSvr.400/GDIHQ/QSYS.LIB/ROBDELME.LIB/DELETEME.FILE/DEL
> ETEME.MBR') 
> CPFA0AB-Operation failed for object.  Object is  
>   /QFileSvr.400/GDIHQ/QSYS.LIB/ROBDELME.LIB/DELETEME.FILE/DELETEME.MBR/DE
>   LETEME.MBR. 

This one is trying to copy the DELETEME.MBR object into the 
.../DELETEME.MBR path. Again, members can't go into members; they 
must go into files.

The TODIR() parameter specifies the target directory. For a source 
object with the .MBR extension, the valid target directory can only 
be one that ends with a .FILE extension because those are the only 
kind of directory that can contain members.

The CPY command attempts to create a new object in the target 
directory, so there can't be a member already there with the same 
name. The TOOBJ() parameter allows you to specify a name change.

In Windows with drag-n-drop, you can't copy a directory into a Word 
document nor can you copy a Word document into an executable 
program. Not much different. The GUI is more responsive and 
intuitive than CPY; but the COPY command can be played with from a 
Windows command line to see similar behavior to CPY. (I don't know 
the COPY rules in much detail, but I'd be surprised if it allowed a 
directory path to be contained within a .DOC file other than as a 
simple text string. Maybe.)

Tom Liotta