Re: What the beep is wrong with this?

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

case should only matter in QOpenSys.

On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 8:32 PM Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I hadn't caught the case difference.  Certainly could be the problem.
>
> I'd be curious what the errno return code was.
>
> Roger Harman
> COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Mark
> Waterbury via RPG400-L
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> Cc: Mark Waterbury <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: What the beep is wrong with this?
>
>  Hi, Jon,
> In one case, you have .../Bob/... in the path, but in the other case (the
> SQL with the table function) you have .../bob/... in the path.
> Could that be it?
> Mark
>     On Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 07:07:24 PM EST, Jon Paris <
> jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  I'm playing with Bob and asked him (it?) to create an RPG program to read
> an IFS file.
>
> I'm familiar with all of the required APIs (or thought I was) - but the
> Bob program will not open the file and I'm danged if I can see why.  Here's
> an extract of the code which demonstrates the issue.
>
> Ctl-Opt DftActGrp(*No);
>
> // C API Prototypes - renamed to avoid opcode conflicts
> Dcl-Pr openFile Int(10) ExtProc('open');
>   *N Pointer Value Options(*String);
>   *N Int(10) Value;
>   *N Uns(10) Value Options(*NoPass);
>   *N Uns(10) Value Options(*NoPass);
> End-Pr;
>
> // Constants for open()
> Dcl-C O_RDONLY 1;
> Dcl-C O_TEXTDATA 16777216;
>
> // Variables
> Dcl-S FilePath Varchar(256) Inz('/home/PARIS/Bob/Test.csv');
> Dcl-S FileDesc Int(10);
>
> // Open the IFS file
> FileDesc = openFile(FilePath: O_RDONLY + O_TEXTDATA );
>
> If FileDesc < 0;
>   Dsply 'Error opening file';
> Else;
>   Dsply 'File Open';
> EndIf;
>
> *InLr = *On;
>
> The file opens just fine if I use SQL ( SELECT * FROM
> TABLE(QSYS2.IFS_READ(PATH_NAME => '/home/paris/bob/Test.csv'))
>
> So I don't think it is a permissions problem (and yes I have checked that
> tooj.  It has to be something dumb and I just can't see it.
>
>
> Jon Paris
> Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
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