If by "Shared Network folder" you mean the user dragged a link to an IFS folder onto their desktop, then yes of course you can move it to that folder.

I am not familiar with the QDLS thingy as that was a short-term work around and (I believe) is deprecated.

The QDLS 'thingy' is used when you do your e-mail with SNDDST TYPE(*DOC), still alive and well. The *DOC is a document in documents and folders system, which is /QDLS.

Shared network folders can be root folders. You can CPYTOIMPF directly into the target folder. If you still want to create in the original folder, you have the option to use MOV (Move object) instead of QSH.

Question: Is this file small enough to e-mail if you compress it? After you create your CSV file, you can use QSH and run a jar command to make a ZIP from it. I can find code samples if you'd like to try this.

On the CPYTOIMPF, do you trim trailing blanks? RMVBLANK(*TRAILING). 

Or set up an IFS shared folder in Netserver that the users can access. Do via System i Navigator. 

https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/rzahl/rzahlcrtfileshare.htm

Also "Access : Read Only" means use normal security. That READ ONLY part is confusing. 

Ringer 

There is another option, you can put it in a web folder, and then they can access it. By that, I mean for example, you can put it in the www folder associated with the internal web domain. For example, (while not necessary to have on zendserver, I will show the example with zendserver and php, but php itself, isn't really necessary). 

I have things that users need to access, and so I made up a very simple html page with a hyperlink to the file (you don't need an html page, as you could simply have them bookmark the link...)

You can continue to do your cpytoimpf command, but now you would put it in www/zendsrv/htdocs (or whatever that path is), and of course make sure that qhttm... user has access to it.

then the users could go to like:  http://192.168.1.xxx:10088/myfolder/myfile.csv and get the file.

I generate lots of web pages out of rpg and dump into the htdocs folder, etc. and of course you can even do graphs, etc.

chris

Chriss, I like that idea. It doesn't help with the question much, but it does solve another issue that many people have--how to automatically get data to the end-user's PC without using FTP, Client Access, "shared folders" or whatever. I like having a dedicated web page that perhaps they have a shortcut to on their desktops.

Thanks!

I think it does answer the question, they have a file too large that they used to email and they want to write it to some sort of network folder, thinking of the htdocs folder as a "network folder"

Send them an email with the link of the file location, and when they click on it, they can download it.

But back to what they originally asked about, I am a bit confused, because the network folder could be in QNTC and you could write it directly to that folder in the ifs.  I mean, I have a network folder on a windows server, that I write files from the ibmi all day long, and it is simply a qntc situation.  Not necessary to do qshell, etc.

You can use cpytosmtf or cpytoimpf to do such....

chris