Delete A File From The Ifs Band
Guru: Finding Large Files With PythonJuly 15, 2019It’s always a good idea to purge files that aren’t needed any longer. Chances are that you already have procedures in place to purge data from Db2 files and tables, but what about files that reside in the IFS? Do you have a good solution for keeping the IFS clean?Perhaps you have old order files stored in the IFS. If you work for a large company, these types of files can accumulate quickly. I’ve written processes in the past to remove files from the IFS using RPG, but I’d like to offer an alternative. I’m going to show how you can use Python to search a directory in the IFS, display attributes of the file, and then delete it. To take it one more step, I’ll show how you can search for files with names that meet a certain criterion.
Ifs File Viewer
In this example, I’m going to filter for text files.This story contains code, which you can download.Figure 1. IFS folder with various types of documents.With the goal set, let’s jump right into the code. I start by importing some Python modules, as seen in the following piece of code, to help me with various tasks. From datetime import datetimeimport osimport fnmatchThe ‘datetime’ module helps me to display a nicely formatted date. In this example, I’m displaying the last modified date. If I don’t format the date, I’d get an Epoch date (Figure 2) that is not easily deciphered (at least for me anyway).
In previous posts I have written about from one IBM i partition to another. Almost all of the examples I gave were for transferring of a file, or files, in what I call the ' IBM i environment', good old libraries and files.Earlier this week one of my colleagues came to me and asked if there was a way to use FTP to copy a file in the IFS of one IBM i to the IFS of another partition. I looked back at the posts I had written and realized that I did not have a good example of how to do this. I thought I would share what we played with so he could understand what to do.Before we get started I need to explain that FTP with IBM i has two naming conventions for the file's path:. Library name format: which is the familiar library/ file. Din font free download.