Save file not created via FTP but a PF

[CENTRINO]

From one of our Iseries a library paked into a SAVF file, was sent via
FTP into the QGPL library of another I system.

On the target system no one created the corresponding SAVF, so the
intended SAVF landed as a PF and there is no way to restore our missing
LIBRARY via RSTLIB.

Is there any way to convert the PF into a SAVF?

Thanks in advance.

[Peter H. Coffin]

Pre-create the *SAVF, and resend the original into the *SAVF, specifying
(REPLACE. If the transfer is huge and slow, you may be able to get away
with doing an ftp transfer from/to localhost.

Sadly, this doesn't seem to be as simple as changing an attribute
someplace.

--
72. If all the heroes are standing together around a strange device and
begin to taunt me, I will pull out a conventional weapon instead of
using my unstoppable superweapon on them.
--Peter Anspach's list of things to do as an Evil Overlord

[Marc Rauzier]

CENTRINO �crivait dans news:heoovu$1cpo$1...@news.telesweet.net ce qui
suit:

Try the following (never tried):

* create a save file on the target server
* open an ftp session on the target server and connect to itself (using
localhost)
* move to a binary transfer mode
* try to transfer from the physical to the save file

>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>

--
Cordialement
Marc Rauzier
(pour me r�pondre, ne pas utiliser le from mais le reply-to)

[highvalue.fr]

Marc Rauzier wrote:
> CENTRINO �crivait dans news:heoovu$1cpo$1...@news.telesweet.net ce qui
> suit:
>
>> From one of our Iseries a library paked into a SAVF file, was
>> sent via
>> FTP into the QGPL library of another I system.
>>
>> On the target system no one created the corresponding SAVF, so
>> the
>> intended SAVF landed as a PF and there is no way to restore our
>> missing LIBRARY via RSTLIB.
>>
>> Is there any way to convert the PF into a SAVF?
>>
>
> Try the following (never tried):
>
> * create a save file on the target server
> * open an ftp session on the target server and connect to itself
> (using localhost)
> * move to a binary transfer mode
> * try to transfer from the physical to the save file
>
>
>>
>> Thanks in advance.

Hi,

you can create the save file during FTP connection if you want :

lcd locallib
cd savelib
quote rcmd crtsavf savelib/ftpsavf
(savf ftpsavf is created into savelib library)
bin
put localsavf ftpsavf
(data of locallib/localsavf are transferred into savelib/ftpsavf)

quote rcmd. rstobj...
(you can restore objects)

best regards,

FF

[CRPence]

CENTRINO wrote:
> From one of our Iseries a library packed into a SAVF file,

> was sent via FTP into the QGPL library of another I system.
>
> On the target system no one created the corresponding SAVF,
> so the intended SAVF landed as a PF and there is no way to
> restore our missing LIBRARY via RSTLIB.

Avoid that issue by using the NAMEFMT 1 which allows specifying
the type of file to create; i.e. PUT MySavF TheFile.SAVF would
ensure the target of the PUT was a save file. For example:

FTP targetsys
.. login ..
quote site namefmt 1
bin
PUT MYLIB/MYSAVF /QSYS.LIB/QGPL.LIB/TheFile.SAVF

> Is there any way to convert the PF into a SAVF?
>

Any program that can read & write the 528-byte records in binary
more can copy the data from the physical database file into the
save\restore save device file. That includes the FTP subcommands
GET & PUT.

Regards, Chuck

[Bob]

This was a good learning experience, I was able to use FTP to recover
a PF back to a SAVF as you advised. Nice to know.

I hope the original poster was also successful.

Bob