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List the contents of the IFS directory

Denzil D Souza
11.14.2002
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I had a hurdle in one of my projects to list the contents of an IFS directory -- in the root system. The solutions I found on the Internet were all oriented to using C function, which is interesting, but was not feasible to use as the client had restricted the development language to ILE RPG and CLLE. So through a little bit of typical 'fiddling around', I found this method. (I don't think its a first, but I found it out on my own all the same.) Here's how I did it:

- Listfile has to be created with the CRTPF command without a DDS, the length of the record depends on the maximum possible length of the filename in

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the IFS dir.

- QSH needs to be installed.

On execution of this command, which is nothing but an output redirection, the file listfile is populated with the filenames of the files in IFS.

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