I want to export a database file that is created through a query, from the AS400 machine to my pc in the form of a csv file.
Is there a way to create that connection of the AS400 and my pc through a cl program?
An idea of what I want to do can be derived from the following code:
CLRPFM DTABASENAME
RUNQRY QRY(QRYTEST1)
CHGVAR VAR(&PATH) VALUE('C:\TESTS')
CHGVAR VAR(&PATH1) VALUE('C:\TESTS')
CHGVAR VAR(&CMD) VALUE(%TRIM(&PATH) *CAT '/DTABASENAME.CSV' !> &PATH !> &PATH1)
STRPCO PCTA(*YES)
STRPCCMD PCCMD(&CMD) PAUSE(*YES)
where I somehow get my database file, give the path that I want it to be saved in, in my pc , and lastly run the pc command accordingly
Take a look at
Copy From Query File (CPYFRMQRYF)
Which will allow you to create a database physical file from the query.
You may also want to look at
Copy To Import File (CPYTOIMPF)
Which will copy data from a database physical file to an Integrated File System (IFS) stream file (such as .CSV); which are the type of files you'd find on a PC.
ex:
CPYTOIMPF FROMFILE(MYLIB/MYPF) TOSTMF('/home/myuser/DTABASENAME.CSV') RCDDLM(*CRLF) DTAFMT(*DLM) STRDLM(*DBLQUOTE) STRESCCHR(*STRDLM) RMVBLANK(*TRAILING)
FLDDLM(',')
However, there's no single command to transfer data to your PC. Well technically, I suppose that's not true. If you configure a (SMB or NFS) file share on your PC and configure the IBM SMB or NFS client; you could in fact CPYTOIMPF directly to that file share or use the Copy Object (CPY) command to copy from the IFS to the network share.
If your PC has an FTP server available, you could send the data via the IBM i's FTP client. Similarly, if you have a SSH server on your PC, OpenSSL is available via PASE and SFTP or SCP could be used. You could also email the file from the i.
Instead of trying to send the file to your PC from the i. An easier solution would be to kick off a process on the PC that runs the download. My preference would be a Access Client Solution (ACS) data transfer.
You configure and save (as a .dtfx file) the transfer
Then you can kick it off with a
STRPCCMD cmd('java -jar C:\ACS\acsbundle.jar /plugin=download C:\testacs.dtfx')
More detailed information can be found in the Automating ACS Data Transfer document
The ACS download compoent is SQL based, so you could probably remove the need to use Query/400 at all