Expert: Concise Systems/Laird Scranton - 4/6/2007

Question
I want to download source file from a library to my pc - Can you help me?  

Answer
I'm presuming that your PC is configured so it can 'see' the AS/400 or iSeries folders. Use the CRTPF command to create a file with record length of 128 characters. Then use the CPYF or CPYSRCF command to copy a source member to that file with a FMTDTA option *NOCHK. Then use the CPYTOPCD to copy the file to a .TXT document in a folder on the AS/400 or iSeries. This file may include sequence number data and change-date data you might not really want. To omit that, you would really need to write a program to perform the copy of the source file to your work file.

- Laird