Re: Help creating file on IFS

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff,

Yes, the IFS e-book on my web site was written for v4r5...  The 
O_TEXT_DATA feature (and it's corresponding 5th parameter) was added to 
the OS in V5R2.  You can get the current copy of IFSIO_H here:

http://scottklement.com/rpg/copybooks/ifsio_h.rpgle.txt

It's still unclear to me what the actual cause of the problem is... 
Here's how I'd call the open() API... maybe that'll help.

 IFS_File_Name = '/excel/xml/I12456_0.csv';

 FileDs = open( %trimr(IFS_File_Name)
              : O_CREAT + O_WRONLY + O_TEXTDATA + O_CCSID
                + O_TEXT_CREAT + O_INHERITMODE
              : 0
              : 1208
              : 0 );

The fact that the file shows up on IBM i, but not on Windows is not a 
commonplace error. It implies (as I said before) that there are two 
copies of the file.

Two possibilities:

1) That there are two locations, and you're viewing different locations 
from each source.

2) That you didn't trim the trailing blanks from the filename, and so 
you have two copies, one with blanks in the filename, and one without.


On 6/18/2012 2:07 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
> Scott,
> 1. The proper number of bytes for the file is 100.  This shows in the
> WRKLNK option 8 on the i.  The file consists of 2 records each 50 bytes.
>
> 2. In Windows (XP Pro) when I view the list of files on the mapped drive,
> it shows 1K.
>     When I double click on the file name, nothing happens.  The file does
> not open and no error is issued.
>
> 3. When viewing the properties in Windows, the file shows as 0 bytes.
>
>
> I am using the IFSIO_H copy book from your book, although it may be an
> older copy as I had to modify the Open prototype to add the fifth parm
> required for O_TEXT_CREAT.
>
> The code I use for the Open of the file is shown in my original post.