You might have a look at our TCVM2 selfstudy course for an easy start http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?TCVM2
2010/7/9 Mark Pace <mpac...@gmail.com> > Thanks, Rob - > After years and years of ignoring Pipes, I decided this week I was going to > learn how to use them. I found some excellent documentation, thanks to you > and others, and have dived head first into the pool. But even with the > Authors Edition, and Pipelines Visualized, I'm still struggling with > multi-stream plumbing. I just need more practice and see good examples. > > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Rob van der Heij <rvdh...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Mark Pace <mpac...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > and it does not create the file. change it to console and it works >> again. >> > Am I missing something obvious? >> >> As Alan points out, you need to append rather than replace the file. >> But since it is Friday, you might learn a bit of mult-stream plumbing >> instead... Rather than calling the pipeline in a loop, you could make >> a single pipe do all the files: >> >> 'PIPE (end \)', >> '\ stem files.', >> '| o: fanout', >> '| pad 25', >> '| j: juxtapose', >> '| > test data a', >> '\ o:', >> '| getfiles', >> '| locate anycase /'LookFor'/', >> '| j:' >> >> Depending on the number of files you're handling, you might even >> notice the speedup. But more important is that it makes it much easier >> to extend the process and do other things with the data. >> >> Rob >> > > > > -- > Mark Pace > Mainline Information Systems > 1700 Summit Lake Drive > Tallahassee, FL. 32317 > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
