Importing and Exporting Text Files

When you select a text file for input or output in a table conversion and do not specify a path, a default path is used. Table conversions that use the default path run on any platform. If an explicit path or IBM i library name is indicated for the file, then the file is created exactly as specified. Table conversions that are stored in this way might not work on other platforms, depending on the nature of the file system on each platform.

The default paths on non-IBM i platforms are:

• path code\Import\file name

• path code\Export\file name

You cannot specify a default path for the IBM i. Rather, the default is always the Import or the Export directory under the path code of the input or output environment. For example, if you are running a table conversion against the DV812 environment, the path in the file system might be \E812\DV812\import\myfile.txt.

If the conversion specifies a file name that includes anything other than the file name and extension, such as \mytextfiles\myfile.txt, the conversion attempts to open the file as specified.