RE: What the beep is wrong with this?

I hadn't caught the case difference.  Certainly could be the problem.

I'd be curious what the errno return code was.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power

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From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces-+hD5IHI5Xscn3HwCXmMcX9BPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org> On Behalf Of Mark Waterbury via RPG400-L
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2026 4:51 PM
To: RPG programming on IBM i <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Waterbury <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: What the beep is wrong with this?

 Hi, Jon,
In one case, you have .../Bob/... in the path, but in the other case (the SQL with the table function) you have .../bob/... in the path.
Could that be it?
Mark
    On Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 07:07:24 PM EST, Jon Paris <[email protected]> wrote:

 I'm playing with Bob and asked him (it?) to create an RPG program to read an IFS file.

I'm familiar with all of the required APIs (or thought I was) - but the Bob program will not open the file and I'm danged if I can see why.  Here's an extract of the code which demonstrates the issue.

Ctl-Opt DftActGrp(*No);

// C API Prototypes - renamed to avoid opcode conflicts
Dcl-Pr openFile Int(10) ExtProc('open');
  *N Pointer Value Options(*String);
  *N Int(10) Value;
  *N Uns(10) Value Options(*NoPass);
  *N Uns(10) Value Options(*NoPass);
End-Pr;

// Constants for open()
Dcl-C O_RDONLY 1;
Dcl-C O_TEXTDATA 16777216;

// Variables
Dcl-S FilePath Varchar(256) Inz('/home/PARIS/Bob/Test.csv');
Dcl-S FileDesc Int(10);

// Open the IFS file
FileDesc = openFile(FilePath: O_RDONLY + O_TEXTDATA );

If FileDesc < 0;
  Dsply 'Error opening file';
Else;
  Dsply 'File Open';
EndIf;

*InLr = *On;

The file opens just fine if I use SQL ( SELECT * FROM TABLE(QSYS2.IFS_READ(PATH_NAME => '/home/paris/bob/Test.csv'))

So I don't think it is a permissions problem (and yes I have checked that tooj.  It has to be something dumb and I just can't see it.


Jon Paris
[email protected]



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