Re: copy from/to qntc

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,

Are you sure that it's valid to copy data into a save file (savf) using 
the 'cp' command?

I know that under the covers if I were writing a program to write to a 
save file, I'd have to use record-based I/O with a particular record 
length or it would give me an error.  The "cp" command is the Unix copy, 
which normally would have no concept whatsoever of record-based I/O, as 
Unix systems don't have record-based files.

This is all speculation, of course, I haven't looked into the internals 
of the 'cp' command on IBM i...  I'm just guessing that they haven't 
added special code to account for save files.

Have you considered trying CPYTOSTMF/CPYFRMSTMF instead of 'cp'? That 
might be an easy solution if I'm right...


On 6/5/2015 8:24 AM, tim wrote:
> we have a backup process that copies data to QNTC as follows:
>
> CHGVAR  VAR(&TODIR) VALUE('/qntc/10.0.0.149/iseries/thu/ourlibrary'
>
> CLRSAVF QGPL/FTPLIB
>
> SAVLIB     LIB(ourlibrary) DEV(*SAVF) SAVF(QGPL/FTPLIB) +
>                          SAVACT(*SYSDFN) SAVACTWAIT(30 30 30) +
>                          SAVACTMSGQ(QSYSOPR) ACCPTH(*YES) +
>                          OMITOBJ((CSFH) (CF)) +
> OUTPUT(*PRINT)
>
> chgvar &c ('cp /qsys.lib/qgpl.lib/ftplib.file' *bcat &TODIR)
> STRQSH  CMD(&c)
>
> now when i try to copy the data back i get following msg:
>
> STRQSH CMD('cp /qntc/10.0.0.149/iseries/thu/ourlibrary
> /qsys.lib/qgpl.lib/ftplib.file')
>
> cp: 001-2104 Error found reading from file
> /qntc/10.0.0.149/iseries/thu/ourlibrary.
> The value specified for the argument is not correct.
> Press ENTER to end terminal session.
>
> any ideas?