The command is CPYTOIMPF:
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Copy To Import File (CPYTOIMPF)
Type choices, press Enter.
From file:
File . . . . . . . . . . . . . Name
Library . . . . . . . . . . *LIBL Name, *LIBL, *CURLIB
Member . . . . . . . . . . . . *FIRST Name, *FIRST
To data base file:
File . . . . . . . . . . . . . Name
Library . . . . . . . . . . *LIBL Name, *LIBL, *CURLIB
Member . . . . . . . . . . . . *FIRST Name, *FIRST
To stream file . . . . . . . . .
Replace or add records . . . . . *ADD *ADD, *REPLACE
To CCSID . . . . . . . . . . . . *FILE 1-65533, *FILE
Record delimiter . . . . . . . . *EOR Character value, *EOR...
Record format of import file . . *DLM *DLM, *FIXED
String delimiter . . . . . . . . '"' Character value, *NONE
Field delimiter . . . . . . . . ',' Character value
Null field indicator . . . . . . *NO *NO, *YES
Decimal point . . . . . . . . . *PERIOD *PERIOD, *COMMA
Date format . . . . . . . . . . *ISO *ISO, *USA, *EUR, *JIS, *YYMD
Time format . . . . . . . . . . *ISO *ISO, *USA, *EUR, *JIS
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Elias
Original message from: Chuck Landress
>There is an AS/400 command (I don't remember exactly) that takes a database file
>and converts it to a stream file on the AS/400. It will even put it on a NT box
>with commas between the fields and so forth. The command is "Convert To Export
>File" or "Convert To Import File". Once it's converted a PC attached to the
>AS/400 could then copy the file anywhere.
>
>You probably have to be at release 4.4 of OS/400.
>
>-Chuck Landress
>
>Larry Bottorff wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a day job (I'm a comp sci at Wichita State) at a Kansas county gov
>> (Harvey) where lot of data is in an AS400. I've been using a commercial
>> client (WRQ Reflection), but would like to go Open Source. We need to get
>> raw files used by an ancient COBOL program over to our LAN. I would like
>> to hack tn5250 to simply do file transfers out of the AS400. My ulterior
>> motive is to get an entire app running on cygwin for distribution
>> throughout the state. (Another motive is to learn about a serious OS
>> project!) The COBOL program is CAMA, a popular package that tax appraisers
>> use, but has no known hooks for getting stuff into the "modern world". If
>> I can get it going for real-time data extraction, I hope to talk the state
>> of Kansas into looking at Linux (and OS) more seriously. As of now I'm
>> struggling with cygwin on NT, a fine thing, but not the real thing....
>>
>> I would appreciate some hints, whatever you can spare, on how to subtract
>> out the visual (curses, etc.) and just bring over files. You might say,
>> "why not do ftp?" Well, I could, but a) I'd like more functionality b)
>> things here are bureaucratic and political, i.e., I can't just go up and
>> ask for ftp permissions, weird but true....
>>
>> BTW, here's what happens to -16.1 on cygwin 1.1.8:
>>
>> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g
>> -O2 -c
>> buffer.c
>> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O2 -c buffer.c -o buffer.o
>> In file included from tn5250-private.h:110,
>> from buffer.c:34:
>> /usr/include/termcap.h:49: conflicting types for `tparm'
>> /usr/include/ncurses.h:733: previous declaration of `tparm'
>> make: *** [buffer.lo] Error 1
>>
>> Any hints?
>>
>> Larry Bottorff
>>
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