Absolute Versus Relative Paths
October 12, 2005 Ted Holt
Faithful reader Bobby recently contacted me for help. He was having some trouble copying files between a library and the root file system. Helping him resolve his problem reminded me that the topic of addressing objects in the Integrated File System (IFS) is confusing and deserves to be written about from time to time.
I’ll use a Copy to Import File (CPYTOIMPF) command to illustrate the type of problem that Bobby ran into. Pay attention to the TOSTMF parameter, which indicates a stream file (IFS file) into which the data is to be copied.
The first command copies a database