Copying a PF to the IFS -- RPG400-L

Subject: Copying a PF to the IFS
From: David FOXWELL <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:31:35 +0100
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Hello,

I have a CL that uses CPYTOSTMF to a file in the IFS that is then converted to XLS format by a JAVA application. I've noticed that CPYTOSTMF seems to be extremely slow. The file copied has around 30 000 rows

Wouldn't I be better off if the PF copied never existed in the first place? I mean write directly to the IFS with the write() API ?

If so, how would I compose each line of data that is to be written ? Do I have to concatenate each column with a separator into the line that is to be written?

The JAVA application expects the hexadecimal character "0B" to tell it where the column separators are.

Thanks.

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Follow-Ups:

Re: Copying a PF to the IFS , Michael Ryan
Re: Copying a PF to the IFS , rob

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