Contents of an IFS folder into a database file???

Posted by: Chris Proctor

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Columbia Sports Company

Portland, OR

Contents of an IFS folder into a database file???
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Published: 03 Jan 2012
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Contents of an IFS folder into a database file??? Published by: Chris Proctor on 03 Jan 2012 view comments(2)

Happy New Year, everyone! A co-worker of mine asked me if I new of a way to extract the file names within an IFS folder to a database file. Off the top of my head I couldn't think of anything except the old dump contents to a printout, copy the printout to a flat file, parse out the data, etc, etc....

I hoping someone here may have found a slick way to handle this. I'm sure he'd appreciate any input!!

Thanks! Chris

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Posted by: Ringer

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Posted: 12 years 3 months 22 days 1 hours 29 minutes ago

RTVDIRINF ? Or there are API's you can call from RPG to open a directory and read the list of files. I can post those if you need them.

Chris R

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Posted: 12 years 3 months 19 days 12 hours 12 minutes ago
Edited: Fri, 06 Jan, 2012 at 20:18:41 (4493 days ago)

We use a UDTF called IFSDIR and it works great! Once you get the function created you can use it right from your programs to populate a PF with a list of files that exist in an IFS folder. For example, I have one RPG program that displays a subfile list of certain jpg images found in a specific folder. We've found IFSDIR to be very useful and easy to use.

It's described here:

http://www2.systeminetwork.com/artarchive/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewarticle&CO_ContentID=17851

(for some reason, the page can sometimes take a while to come up)