Another Way to Dump an IFS File

October 25, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Hey, Ted:

When answering the question that was posed in the October 18 issue of Midrange Guru, “Hex Dump of an IFS File,” you provided a Qshell answer. If you don’t happen to have Qshell installed, you can use two CL commands instead. Here’s how:

CPY OBJ('/somedir/somefile.txt') +
   TOOBJ('/qsys.lib/somelib.lib/hexifs.usrspc') +
   TOCODEPAGE(*CALC) DTAFMT(*TEXT)

DMPOBJ DMPOBJ OBJ(somelib/hexifs) +
   OBJTYPE(*USRSPC)

Experiment with the codepage and data format parameters of the Copy (CPY) command to give needed conversions.

There are a couple of other details of which you should be aware:

• CPY fails if the user space already exists.
• Using CPY to copy from a streamfile to a user space requires *AUDIT special authority.

— Tom Liotta
The Powertech Group Inc.
www.powertech.com

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