If your PC is connected to an iSeries™ server, you can interact with the directories and objects of the integrated file system as if they were stored on your PC.
You can copy objects between directories by using the drag-and-drop capability of Windows® Explorer. As needed, you can actually copy an object from your server to the PC by selecting the object in the server drive and dragging the object to the PC drive.
Any objects that are copied between an iSeries server and PCs by using the Windows interface may be automatically converted between EBCDIC and ASCII. EBCDIC is extended binary-coded decimal interchange code, and ASCII is the American National Standard Code for Information Interchange. iSeries Access Family can be configured to automatically perform this conversion, and can even specify the conversion be performed on files with a specific extension.
Depending on the type of object, you can use PC interfaces and PC applications to work with it. For example, a stream file containing text can be edited using a PC editor.
If you are connected to an iSeries server using your PC, the integrated file system makes your server's directories and objects available to the PC. PCs can work with files in the integrated file system by using file sharing clients built into the Windows operating systems, an FTP client, or iSeries Navigator (a part of iSeries Access Family). Your PC uses Windows file sharing clients to access iSeries NetServer™, which runs on your iSeries server.