When I log onto our AS/400 I am immediately shunted over to a COBOL app,
end of story. I cannot get a regular, interactive AS/400 session. However,
the client we use, WRQ Reflection, has a "transfer" option which produces
a nice raw file transfer dialog box with quasi-SQL capabilities (and COM
capabilities). I have no idea what protocol(s) this "transfer" option
uses, or how it works, but if my app is going to be portable to other
"turn-key" setups (and not require 100s of WRQ licenses or have to resort
to VB), I'll need something with WRQ's transfer capabilities, i.e.,
plug-and-chug, with minimal setup or changes from all the cast-in-iron
AS/400 setups (such as my own). Is a complete AS/400 file transfer doable
in a 5250 session? I'm guessing CPYTOIMPF et.al. are commands issued
during a 5250 session, i.e., they could be automated. This seems like a
typical need, but this newbie has been hacking through a wilderness so
far.
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Elias Mandouvalos wrote:
> The command is CPYTOIMPF:
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 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
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> 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....
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