Transferring Data to New Members in a New File
By using a transfer request from a workstation to the iSeries™, eServer™ i5, or System i5™ system, you can transfer data to new members in a new iSeries™, eServer™ i5, or System i5™ file. This is one of the safest transfer methods, because data already stored in theiSeries™, eServer™ i5, or System i5™ file is not replaced with that transferred from the workstation.
- For data that is broken up into fields, correct conversion is
achieved by transferring it in units of fields. Specify use of the workstation file-description
file at data transfer. In addition, specify data as
the type of the eServer™ i5 or iSeries™ file.
When an iSeries™, eServer™ i5, or System i5™ file and its members are created, the transfer function must access the description of the format of each field to be transferred in the iSeries™, eServer™ i5, or System i5™ file. You can get this description, called a field-reference file, from the iSeries™, eServer™ i5, or System i5™ file. To create an iSeries™, eServer™ i5, or System i5™ file and its members, specify the name of this iSeries™, eServer™ i5, or System i5™ field reference file, as well as the parameters for the other files and members. Note that only the fields to be transferred are defined in a new file.
- For data consisting only of text or source statement records, it is not necessary to break up the records into fields. In addition, the workstation file-description file is not required to transfer data. In other words, an iSeries™, eServer™ i5, or System i5™ physical source file is created.