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<h1 class="topictitle1">Control file system functions</h1>
<div><p>Optical support provides Control File System (QHFCTLFS) functions
to perform unique operations for the optical file system.</p>
<div class="section"><p>The functions described below are optical specific functions that
are not otherwise available through the HFS APIs. Different functions are
available for directly attached and LAN-attached optical devices. </p>
<div class="p">The
following control file system functions are available for directly attached
media libraries:<ul><li><strong>SAV</strong>. Saves a held optical file.</li>
<li><strong>RLS</strong>. Releases a held optical file.</li>
<li><strong>SRD/VOL</strong>. Performs a sector read to an optical volume.</li>
<li><strong>SRD/DEV</strong>. Performs a sector read to an optical device.</li>
<li><strong>RTV/VOL</strong>. Returns volume-specific information.</li>
<li><strong>GET</strong>. Reads file data directly from the media with minimal caching.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle"><span class="wintitle">Control File System functions for directly attached
optical devices</span></h4><p>The following functions are available
for directly attached optical devices.</p>
</div>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Save held optical file function</h4><p>Use the Control
File System program to save a held optical file. A process must be allowed
read access to a held optical file to save it.</p>
<p>The following is the
syntax for the input buffer for the QHFCTLFS program: </p>
<p><samp class="codeph">'SAV'
+ '/' + held-file-path + '//' + destination-file-path</samp></p>
<div class="p">For example: <ul><li>Input data buffer: <samp class="codeph"> SAV/VOLUME1/DIRECTORY1/FILE1//VOLUME2/DIRECTORY2/FILE2 </samp></li>
<li>Input data buffer length: <samp class="codeph">54</samp></li>
</ul>
</div>
<p>This function is also available using an option on the Work with
Held Optical File (WRKHLDOPTF) display. However, unlike the save option on
the Work with Held Optical File (WRKHLDOPTF) display, the save held optical
file function of the control file system API does not automatically release
a held file after it is saved. Therefore, an explicit release held optical
file request is needed afterward. </p>
</div>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Release held optical file function</h4><p>Use the Control
File System program to clear the held status of a file and release the optical
file system from its obligation to write to the optical disk. A process must
be allowed read and write access to a held file in order to release it; this
means that no locks may currently be imposed on the file by other active jobs.</p>
<div class="p">The
following is the syntax for the input buffer for the QHFCTLFS program: <pre>'RLS' + '/' + held-file-path</pre>
</div>
<div class="p">For
example: <ul><li>Input data buffer: <samp class="codeph">RLS/VOLUME1/DIRECTORY1/FILE1</samp></li>
<li>Input data buffer length: <samp class="codeph">28</samp></li>
</ul>
</div>
<p>This function is also available using an option on the Work Held
Optical File (WRKHLDOPTF) display. </p>
</div>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Sector read function</h4><p>The Control file system program
can be used to do a sector reading of optical media. The sector read function
is useful if the application knows precisely where data is stored on optical
media. Sector read functions can be accomplished without opening and closing
files and independently of all HFS APIs. Multiple sectors may be read at one
time.</p>
<div class="p">There are two variations of the input buffer for issuing the Control
File System sector read function: <pre>SRD/VOL/volume_name/starting sector/number of sectors</pre>
<pre>SRD/DEV/device_name/starting sector/number of sectors</pre>
</div>
<p>Both return the range of sectors requested by the user. Sectors can
be requested from an optical volume or optical device. For example, if an
application wanted to read five sectors of optical volume <samp class="codeph">VOL01</samp> beginning
at sector 1000, the following is requested: <samp class="codeph">SRD/VOL/VOL01/1000/5</samp></p>
<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> DEV
is valid for stand-alone CD and DVD devices.</div>
</div>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Retrieve volume information function</h4><p>Use the Control
File System program to retrieve information about a particular volume.</p>
<div class="p">The
following is the input buffer format for the QHFCTLFS program: <pre>RTV/VOL/volume_name</pre>
</div>
<p>The
format of the information returned in the output buffer is identical to the
output file structure for volume attributes (QAMODVA). </p>
</div>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Get file data</h4><p>You can use the Control File System
(QHFCTLFS) HFS API to read a block of data from a file directly into your
output buffer. This function improves performance when reading an entire file
sequentially or when reading large blocks of data. The optical file system
will not copy or cache the data as it does through normal Open, Read, and
Close Stream File HFS APIs. When doing random read operations to a file, the
Open, Read, and Close Steam File option may still provide the best performance.</p>
<div class="p">The
following restrictions apply when using this API:<ul><li>Align output buffer on a 512-byte boundary.</li>
<li>File offset must be 0 or a multiple of 4096.</li>
<li>Maximum-read size is 16␠384␠000 bytes.</li>
<li>The HFS API requires Shared No Update (*SHRNUP) access to the file.</li>
<li>Calling program must be in user (not system) state.</li>
<li>The HFS API requires *USE authority to the volume.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="p">Here is the syntax for the input buffer for the QHFCTLFS program: <pre>'GET' + '/' + entire path + '//' + bytes to read + '/' + file offset</pre>
</div>
<div class="p"> The following example will read 15 MB from FILE.XXX, starting at
the beginning of the file with (offset=0):<ul><li>Input data buffer: GET/VOL1/DIR1/SUBDIR1/FILE.XXX//15728640/0</li>
<li>Input data buffer length: 42</li>
</ul>
</div>
<p>The number of bytes read is returned in the Length of data returned
parameter. In the above example if FILE.XXX is only 50 KB in size, 51200 will
be returned in the field. Therefore, it is not necessary to know the file
size prior to issuing this request. Likewise, if 15728640 is returned in the
Length of data returned parameter, the file is at least 15 MB in size. More
read operations may be necessary to retrieve all the data.</p>
<p>It is not
required that the number of bytes to read be a multiple of 4096. However,
if the number is not a multiple of 4096, data may be read into the output
buffer beyond the number of bytes requested. This is because the device does
I/O in blocks of 4096 bytes. Therefore, reading data in multiples of 4096
bytes is advised in order to avoid this problem.</p>
</div>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Errors from control file system (GET)</h4><p>The following
table shows some common application errors that may occur using this API.</p>
<div class="tablenoborder"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" frame="border" border="1" rules="all"><caption>Table 1. Common errors for the GET API</caption><thead align="left"><tr><th valign="top" id="d0e172">Message</th>
<th valign="top" id="d0e174">Error</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody><tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e172 ">OPT1812 with 6030 as unexpected return code</td>
<td valign="top" headers="d0e174 ">File offset is beyond the end of file.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e172 ">OPT1812 with A950 as unexpected return code</td>
<td valign="top" headers="d0e174 ">Output buffer is not 512-byte aligned.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e172 ">OPT1860</td>
<td valign="top" headers="d0e174 ">Bytes to read is greater than the buffer size.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e172 ">OPT1812 with C060 as unexpected return code</td>
<td valign="top" headers="d0e174 ">Attempted to read more than 16␠384␠000 bytes.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e172 ">OPT1812 with C061 as unexpected return code</td>
<td valign="top" headers="d0e174 ">File offset is not a 4096 multiple.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e172 ">CPF1F48</td>
<td valign="top" headers="d0e174 ">Input buffer is not valid. Verify the syntax.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle"><span class="wintitle">Control file system functions for LAN-attached optical
devices</span></h4><div class="p">The following control file system functions are
available for LAN-attached media libraries.<ul><li>UPD/LAN - performs a dynamic refresh of the LAN volume lists.</li>
<li>UPD/VOL - returns volume-specific information.</li>
<li>RTV/VOL - returns volume-specific information.</li>
<li>RTV/DIR - returns subdirectory and file entries for a specified directory. </li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Update volume information</h4><p>Use the Control File System
program to retrieve information about a particular volume or to update the
internal list of available volumes on a LAN.</p>
<div class="p"> The following is the input
buffer format for the QHFCTLFS program: <pre>UPD/VOL/volume_name</pre>
</div>
<div class="p">It
performs the following: <ul><li>UPD/VOL/volume-name: Using this input buffer format returns the amount
of free space on a volume, total user space, media type, and opposite-side
volume ID. The format is shown here: <ul><li>Bytes (1-32): Opposite-side volume ID.</li>
<li>Bytes (33): Reserved.</li>
<li>Bytes (34-37): User free space on the volume. This is a 4-byte binary
field.</li>
<li>Bytes (38-41): Total free space on the volume. This consists of the user
free space on the volume plus the reserved space on the volume. The reserved
space on the volume is determined when setting the volume-full threshold for
the volume. This is a 4-byte binary field.</li>
<li>Bytes (42): Media type. This is a 1-byte binary field that can have
the following values. <ul><li>0 = Nonvalid Media or 3431 Standalone Drive</li>
<li>1 = Write Once Read Many (WORM) media</li>
<li>2 = Rewriteable media</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Bytes (43): Magnitude of free space on the volume. This is a 1-byte binary
field that can have the following values: <ul><li>0 = Space field is in number of bytes.</li>
<li>1 = Space field is in number of kilobytes (1024).</li>
<li>2 = Space field is in number of megabytes (1048576).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Bytes (44): Magnitude of Total Space on the Volume. This is a 1-byte
binary field that can have the following values: <ul><li>0 = Space field is in number of bytes.</li>
<li>1 = Space field is in number of kilobytes (1024).</li>
<li>2 = Space field is in number of megabytes (1048576).</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>UPD/LAN: Using this input buffer format updates an internal list of available
volumes on all activated servers. You can perform this function after adding
or removing cartridges from data servers.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Retrieve volume information function</h4><p>Use the Control
File System program to retrieve information about a particular volume.</p>
<div class="p">The
following is the input buffer format for the QHFCTLFS program:<pre>RTV/VOL/volume_name</pre>
</div>
<p>The
format of the information returned in the output buffer is identical to the
output file structure for volume attributes (QAMODVA). </p>
<p>The system uses
format QAMODVA for volumes in all optical device types. While the format is
the same, not all fields contain a value for LAN volumes. </p>
</div>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Retrieve directory information function</h4><p>Use the
Control File System program to retrieve a list of files and subdirectories
for a particular directory.</p>
<div class="p">The following is the input buffer for the
QHFCTLFS program:<pre>RTV/DIR/volume_name/directory_name</pre>
</div>
<div class="p">The
directory information is returned in the output buffer in the following format: <ul><li>CBdirectoryBCBdirectoryBCBfilenameBCBfilenameBB, whereas the following
are: <ul><li>C <ul><li>D = Directory entry</li>
<li>F = File name entry</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>B = EBCDIC blank</li>
<li>BB = Double EBCDIC blanks to indicate end of string</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<p>The output buffer must be at least 31 KB long.</p>
</div>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="hfs.htm" title="Read this topic collection to learn how to program with the hierarchical file system (HFS).">Hierarchical file system (HFS) programming</a></div>
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