RE: Read stream files by data/time?

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

You don't know C# or vb or Java. Simple to do what you in PC language. Just
map a network drive to get access to the folder. If one shot deal is it
worth messing with rpg?


On Jan 20, 2017 7:39 PM, "midrange" <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Justin,
>
> You may get a cleaner simpler response, but here are two ways
> 1. qshell LS command
> The -lT   (- lower case L and upper case T  -lT) parms  see docs for other
> parms
> CHGVAR     VAR(&LSCOMMAND) VALUE('LS -l /bncf/ > +
>              /QSYS.LIB/' *TCAT 'BAAFIL' *TCAT +
>              '.LIB/listfile.FILE/listfile.MBR')
> QSH        CMD(&LSCOMMAND)
>
> Will give you a file with records like this
> -rwx---rwx  1 JIMF       0                  5465 Jan 14 21:56:05 2017
> 00982340.pdf
>
> I don't know how to get LS to do a better date format.
>
> Option 2 is the RPG read the IFS  and you can get a better date format
> (with
> a few lines of code)
> Several sites have IFS Listing programs, or I can post one I copied off
> this
> list in 2001 (old style)
> You would end up either using array, data structure, or writing to a file
> to
> then RPG or sql to select the files to DEL
>
> Jim Franz
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Justin Taylor
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 7:21 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L (midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
> Subject: Read stream files by data/time?
>
> Is there an API that will process all stream files within a dir by
> date/time?
>
>
> I'm inheriting a number of PDF files (about 625k) from our Windows team.  I
> need to catalogue and remove redundant files.  I'm thinking that if I can
> read the files in descending order by date/time, I can keep the first file
> and just delete future redundant files.
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