Copying data using data-transfer functions

 

The date-transfer applications in the iSeries™ Access Family licensed program have the advantage of an easy-to-follow graphical interface, and automatic numeric and character data conversion.

However, data transfer requires the installation of the iSeries Access Family product and requires the use of both PC and i5/OS^® resources and communications between the two.

If you have iSeries Access Family installed on the PC and your system, you can use the data transfer applications to transfer data between stream files and database files. You can also transfer data into a new database file that is based on an existing database file, into an externally described database file, or into a new database file definition and file.

• Transferring data from a database file to a stream file
  To transfer a file from a database file to a stream file on your system, follow these steps.

• Transferring data from a stream file to a database file
  To transfer data from a stream file to a database file on your system, follow these steps.

• Transferring data into a newly created database file definition and file
  You can follow these directions to transfer data into a newly created database file definition and file.

• Creating a format description file
  If you are moving data to an existing database file definition on the system, the Data Transfer to iSeries server application requires you to use an associated format description file (FDF).

 

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Copying data between stream files and database files