Re: copy from/to qntc

[tim <iseriesstuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scott,

1). I didnt try the CPYFRMSTMF yet, but i will and let you know the results.

2) When i tried the CPY with defaults, it gave me a CCSID error message 
so i just changed to *CALC and it worked. I guess if it works dont fix it :)



On 6/5/2015 2:34 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
> Tim,
>
> Thanks for letting us know what ended up working for you.
>
> For my own information, some questions if you don't mind:
>
> 1) did you try CPYFRMSTMF as I suggested and find that it did not 
> work?  I know that CPYFRMSTMF is often used to populate save files.
>
> 2) Why did you specify TOCCSID(*CALC) on your CPY command?  I suspect 
> it's ignored because DTAFMT(*BINARY) is the default on the CPY 
> command. But to someone who doesn't know that, the TOCCSID(*CALC) 
> would seem like a curious thing to do.  Translating save file data 
> between CCSIDs makes no sense.
>
>
>
>
> On 6/5/2015 1:23 PM, tim wrote:
> > i ended up using cpy command instead.
> >
> > CPY OBJ('/qntc/10.0.0.149/iseries/thu/ourlibrary')
> >      TOOBJ('/qsys.lib/qgpl.lib/ftplib.file')
> >      TOCCSID(*CALC)
> >      REPLACE(*YES)
> >
> >
> > On 6/5/2015 11:48 AM, Scott Klement wrote:
> > > 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?