Accessing using a PC

 

If your PC is connected to a System i™ product, you can interact with the directories and objects of the integrated file system as if they were stored on your PC.

You can copy objects between directories by using the drag-and-drop capability of Windows^® Explorer. As needed, you can actually copy an object from your system to the PC by selecting the object in the system drive and dragging the object to the PC drive.

Any objects that are copied between a System i product and PCs by using the Windows interface can be automatically converted between EBCDIC (extended binary-coded decimal interchange code) and ASCII (American National Standard Code for Information Interchange). The iSeries™ Access Family can be configured to automatically perform this conversion, and can even specify that the conversion be performed on files with a specific extension.

Depending on the type of object, you can use PC interfaces and PC applications to work with it. For example, a stream file containing text can be edited using a PC editor.

If you are connected to a System i product using your PC, the integrated file system makes your system's directories and objects available to the PC. PCs can work with files in the integrated file system by using file sharing clients built into the Windows operating systems, an FTP client, or iSeries Navigator (a part of iSeries Access Family). Your PC uses Windows file sharing clients to access iSeries NetServer™, which runs on your system.

 

Parent topic:

Accessing the integrated file system

 

Related concepts

Accessing using iSeries Navigator

 

Related tasks

Accessing using iSeries NetServer

 

Related reference

Accessing using File Transfer Protocol