IBM CDI5UG1107 manual FDSN‘from remote-data-set-name’, Snodenvirn

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FDSN(‘from remote-data-set-name’)

specifies the source file name. File names are verified based on the i5/OS standard file name conventions. The length of the input field displayed is 132 characters, by default. If you want to increase the length of the field to 256 characters, type an ampersand(&) followed by a blank in the first two positions of the field.

Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS provides two systems for handling the files: Native File System and Integrated File System. The following table summarizes the data set name requirements for Sterling Connect:Direct platforms.

SNODENVIRN	FDSN Format		Special Considerations
OS/400	Native File System		Enclose in single quotation
	‘library-name/file-name’ ‘library-name/file-name		marks.
	(member-name)’
	Integrated File System		You cannot specify the
	‘/QSYS.LIB/library-name.LIB /file-name.FILE		*SNDFFD, *SELECT, and
	/member-name.MBR’	or	*EXCLUDE parameters with the
	‘/directory/file-name /QLANSrv/file-name		integrated file system.
	/QDLS/folder-name /QOpenSys/file-name’
	Spool File Support		Do not use member names
	spooled-file-name		longer than eight characters
			when sending to z/OS, VSE,
			and MSP. The results are
			unpredictable.

OS/390, VSE, MSP Standard z/OS DSN naming conventions.

Single quotes allow special characters. Do not use member names longer than eight characters. The results are unpredictable.

VM	Fully qualified file-name
Tandem	\system.$volume.subvolume.filename
Microsoft Windows	drive:\directory\subdirectory\filename
	or
	\\servername\sharepointname\subdirectory\filename
UNIX	/directory/subdirectory/filename
OpenVMS	node::device:[directory]filename.type;version	When you are copying a file ,
		the file specification must be
		enclosed in single quotation
		marks if it uses spaces or other
		special characters not
		recognized by the other node.
Stratus VOS	Fully qualified path and file name	Enclose the file name in double
		quotation marks when you use
		a reserved word (statement
		name or keyword) for the file
		name.

Note: The values of *LIBL, *CURLIB, and QTEMP cannot be used when sending to or from an iSeries system using Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS. A specific library name must be used for copying from or to a data set on the iSeries.