RE: Question about error msg "No such path or directory"

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Daniel,

> Must the file I created from my RPG program reside
> within the IFS....can I ftp a file from my Libraryname/filename?

Yes and no. I'll explain.

The IFS includes every disk your system has access to.  Sure, it includes 
the PC-like filesystem (called the "root" filesystem) but it also includes 
a unix-like file system, your CD-Rom or Optical Drive, access to Windows 
Networking resources, and several other things.

Among the many things you can access through teh IFS interface is the 
traditional "Library" filesystem.

So if you have a library named ACCTPAY and in that library you have a file 
named CHECKS you would traditionally reference that file by the name 
ACCTPAY/CHECKS.

You can access the same file through the IFS interface by specifying it 
with the name:
  /QSYS.LIB/ACCTPAY.LIB/CHECKS.FILE

/QSYS.LIB = the "traditional" library/object area of the system.
ACCTPAY.LIB = the IFS name for the ACCTPAY library
CHECKS.FILE = the IFS name for the CHECKS object, which is a *FILE.

That's why I said "yes and no". Although FTPAPI requires an IFS-style 
filename, you CAN still access your traditional objects.  You just have to 
use a slightly different naming convention.

In free-format RPG, you might code the following statement:

     rc = FTP_put(sess: '/Program Files/FTP/Public/CHECKS.TXT'
                      : '/QSYS.LIB/ACCTPAY.LIB/CHECKS.FILE/CHECKS.MBR');

This uploads the CHECKS member of the CHECKS file to the
/Program Files/FTP/CHECKS.TXT file on the Windows machine that's acting an 
an FTP server.

However, you might want to consider running CPYTOIMPF ahead of time 
anyway, since the Windows system may not undersstand the format of an 
iSeries member if it's not converted first.  It depends on the application 
and files involved.

Hope that helps...

> Hi Scott....bear with me... I am not familiar with FTP or RPGILE....or
> IFS for that matter....I have had some success with the ftp_put......so
> the question now is;
>
> I did do a CPYTOIMPF to get my file into IFS and was able to FTP_PUT to
> a co-workers PC.....Is the CPYTOIMPF an absolutely necessary step to get
> FTP done?....It would be great if could just ftp the file from my as400
> library...outside of the IFS.
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