Work with Files (WRKF)

Where allowed to run: Interactive environments (*INTERACT *IPGM *IREXX *EXEC)
Threadsafe: No

The Work with Files (WRKF) command shows a list of files and allows you to copy, delete, save, and restore files, and to display file descriptions.

Restrictions:

Only the libraries to which you have use (*USE) authority will be searched.
Only the files to which you have some authority will be shown on the display.
To perform operations on the files, you must have *USE authority to the command used by the operation, and the appropriate authority to the files on which the operation is to be performed.

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Parameters

Keyword	Description	Choices	Notes
FILE	File	Qualified object name	Required, Positional 1
	Qualifier 1: File	Generic name, name, *ALL
	Qualifier 2: Library	Name, LIBL, CURLIB, USRLIBL, ALLUSR, *ALL
FILEATR	File attributes	*ALL, BSCF38, CMNF38, DDMF, DFU, DFUEXC, DFUNOTEXC, DKTF, DSPF, DSPF38, ICFF, LF, LF38, MXDF38, PF, PF38, PRTF, PRTF38, SAVF, TAPF	Optional, Positional 2

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File (FILE)

Specifies the files to be shown on the Work with Files display.

This is a required parameter.

Qualifier 1: File

*ALL: All files are shown.
generic-name: Specify the generic name of the files to be shown. A generic name is a character string that contains one or more characters followed by an asterisk (*). If a generic name is specified, all files that have names with the same prefix as the generic name are shown.
name: Specify the name of the file to be shown.

Qualifier 2: Library

*LIBL: All libraries in the library list for the current thread are searched. All objects in these libraries with the specified object name are shown.

*CURLIB: The current library for the thread is searched. If no library is specified as the current library for the thread, the QGPL library is searched.

*USRLIBL: If a current library entry exists in the library list for the current thread, the current library and the libraries in the user portion of the library list are searched. If there is no current library entry, only the libraries in the user portion of the library list are searched.

*ALLUSR

All user libraries are searched. All libraries with names that do not begin with the letter Q are searched except for the following:

#CGULIB     #DSULIB     #SEULIB
#COBLIB     #RPGLIB
#DFULIB     #SDALIB

Although the following Qxxx libraries are provided by IBM, they typically contain user data that changes frequently. Therefore, these libraries are considered user libraries and are also searched:

QDSNX       QRCLxxxxx   QUSRDIRDB   QUSRVI
QGPL        QSRVAGT     QUSRIJS     QUSRVxRxMx
QGPL38      QSYS2       QUSRINFSKR
QMGTC       QSYS2xxxxx  QUSRNOTES
QMGTC2      QS36F       QUSROND
QMPGDATA    QUSER38     QUSRPOSGS
QMQMDATA    QUSRADSM    QUSRPOSSA
QMQMPROC    QUSRBRM     QUSRPYMSVR
QPFRDATA    QUSRDIRCF   QUSRRDARS
QRCL        QUSRDIRCL   QUSRSYS

'xxxxx' is the number of a primary auxiliary storage pool (ASP).
A different library name, in the format QUSRVxRxMx, can be created by the user for each previous release supported by IBM to contain any user commands to be compiled in a CL program for the previous release. For the QUSRVxRxMx user library, VxRxMx is the version, release, and modification level of a previous release that IBM continues to support.

*ALL: All libraries in the system, including QSYS, are searched.

name: Specify the name of the library to be searched.

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File attributes (FILEATR)

Specifies the type of file whose attributes are to be shown.

*ALL: Files with all attributes are shown.
BSCF38: A list of binary synchronous communication (BSC) communications files for a System/38 is shown.
CMNF38: A file that is used to read data from, or write data to a logical unit (LU1) or advanced program-to-program communications (APPC) device and that allows the user to define the format of the data on the logical unit or device. A communications (CMNF38) file is a device file that is either created in the System/38 environment or migrated from a System/38 to support a communications device.
DDMF: A list of the Distributed Data Management (DDM) files is shown.
DFU: A list of data file utility (DFU) files is shown.
DFUEXC: A list of the System/38 data file utility (DFU) files which can be run using the System/38 data file utility is shown.
DFUNOTEXC: A list of the System/38 data file utility (DFU) files which cannot be run using the System/38 data file utility is shown.
DKTF: A list of diskette files is shown.
DSPF: A list of display files is shown.
DSPF38: A list of display files for a System/38 is shown.
ICFF: A list of Interactive Communications Function (ICF) files is shown.
LF: A list of logical files is shown.
LF38: A list of logical files for a System/38 is shown.
MXDF38: A list of mixed device files for a System/38 is shown.
PF: A list of physical files is shown.
PF38: A list of physical files for a System/38 is shown.
PRTF: A list of printer files is shown.
PRTF38: A list of printer files for a System/38 is shown.
SAVF: A list of save files is shown.
TAPF: A list of tape files is shown.

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Examples

WRKF   FILE(X/PAY)

This command allows you to work with the file named PAY which is located in library X.

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Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

CPF9809: Library &1 cannot be accessed.
CPF9810: Library &1 not found.
CPF9820: Not authorized to use library &1.

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