Re: Use of the IFS

[Adam West <adamster@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes that is what I am looking to do. But which machines run the code? Then you need a program on the PC to to the FTP so to speak or could it be run from the i? and if from the PC what type of Programming Language would be doing this?




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From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 1, 2009 1:21:43 PM
Subject: Re: Use of the IFS

Adam West wrote:
> Thanks Joe, So with respect to point #5. My users on the PC shipping application would need a PC program to take their data and by being mapped to the IFS, it would transfer their data directly like that?
>
> From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   
> 5. Users on other machines can "map" drives or folders to your IFS.  
> That is, you can create a folder on the IFS, and then other machines in 
> your network can link to that folder and then access files on the folder 
> as if that file were on their machine locally.  No FTP required.
>
>   
Adam, I'm not 100% sure what you're saying, but if you share a folder on 
your IFS, you can map a drive on your PC to that folder and if your PC 
applications write to that drive, they are actually writing to the IFS.

What are you trying to do here?  It sounds like you have a shipping 
application on the PC, and it also sounds like you want to get 
information from this application to the i.  Are you doing this today?  
Does it involve sending files from the PC to the i using FTP?  If so, a 
mapped drive can remove the use of FTP: you can just copy the file from 
the application to the mapped drive, and that will transfer it to the 
IFS folder on the i.

But if you are very specific about what you're trying to accomplish and 
I think we can help more.

Joe