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We are looking at a process that will allow a user to write files to a local drive using a combination of:

1. C$OPENSAVEBOX (type 4) to select a folder to write the file

2. C$COPY to copy the file from the server to the local machine

The above works fine as long as the user has write access to the folder selected.  So we are attempting to check write access to a folder before we let the user "pick" that folder.  We are attempting the following:

1. C$OPENSAVEBOX (type 4) to pick a folder

2. C$COPY to copy a small test file to folder

3. If no Error is returned from C$COPY the user has the rights to that folder

4. C$DELETE to delete small test file from folder

This is where my question comes in...all items above work great except #4...the delete command will not remove the file.  The C$DELETE command returns 1 (error) every time it is ran.


Any help would be great with this or any different way for us to check user access to write to a folder would help also.

We are looking at a process that will allow a user to write files to a local drive using a combination of:

1. C$OPENSAVEBOX (type 4) to select a folder to write the file

2. C$COPY to copy the file from the server to the local machine

The above works fine as long as the user has write access to the folder selected.  So we are attempting to check write access to a folder before we let the user "pick" that folder.  We are attempting the following:

1. C$OPENSAVEBOX (type 4) to pick a folder

2. C$COPY to copy a small test file to folder

3. If no Error is returned from C$COPY the user has the rights to that folder

4. C$DELETE to delete small test file from folder

This is where my question comes in...all items above work great except #4...the delete command will not remove the file.  The C$DELETE command returns 1 (error) every time it is ran.


Any help would be great with this or any different way for us to check user access to write to a folder would help also.

If this syntax ... C$DELETE "@[DISPLAY]:C:\\path\\filename" is failing, please report this bug to Customer Care

We are looking at a process that will allow a user to write files to a local drive using a combination of:

1. C$OPENSAVEBOX (type 4) to select a folder to write the file

2. C$COPY to copy the file from the server to the local machine

The above works fine as long as the user has write access to the folder selected.  So we are attempting to check write access to a folder before we let the user "pick" that folder.  We are attempting the following:

1. C$OPENSAVEBOX (type 4) to pick a folder

2. C$COPY to copy a small test file to folder

3. If no Error is returned from C$COPY the user has the rights to that folder

4. C$DELETE to delete small test file from folder

This is where my question comes in...all items above work great except #4...the delete command will not remove the file.  The C$DELETE command returns 1 (error) every time it is ran.


Any help would be great with this or any different way for us to check user access to write to a folder would help also.

Below is the code from the program I described above...it is running from a UNIX server via thin client and only the C$DELETE statement fails:

      SELECT-SAVE-FOLDER.

          INITIALIZE WS-SAVE-FOLDER.

          INITIALIZE OPENSAVE-DATA.

          CALL "C$OPENSAVEBOX" USING 4 OPENSAVE-DATA.

          MOVE OPNSAV-FILENAME TO WS-SAVE-FOLDER.

          MOVE ZEROS TO WS-ERROR.

          MOVE SPACES TO WS-STRING.

          STRING "@[DISPLAY]:" DELIMITED BY SIZE

                 WS-SAVE-FOLDER DELIMITED BY "  "

                 "\\" DELIMITED BY SIZE

                 "TEST.TXT" DELIMITED BY SIZE

                 INTO WS-STRING.

          CALL "C$COPY" USING

               "/u/acudir/dataC/DONOTREMOVE.txt"

               WS-STRING

               GIVING WS-ERROR.

          CANCEL "C$COPY".

          IF WS-ERROR = ZEROS

             CALL "C$DELETE" USING WS-STRING

                GIVING WS-ERROR

             CANCEL "C$DELETE"

             GO TO SSF-EXIT

          ELSE

             DISPLAY MESSAGE BOX

                "USER DOES NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO SAVE TO THIS FOLDER!"

                NEWLINE

                NEWLINE

                "PLEASE SELECT ANOTHER."

             GO TO SELECT-SAVE-FOLDER

          END-IF.

      SSF-EXIT.

          EXIT.

We are looking at a process that will allow a user to write files to a local drive using a combination of:

1. C$OPENSAVEBOX (type 4) to select a folder to write the file

2. C$COPY to copy the file from the server to the local machine

The above works fine as long as the user has write access to the folder selected.  So we are attempting to check write access to a folder before we let the user "pick" that folder.  We are attempting the following:

1. C$OPENSAVEBOX (type 4) to pick a folder

2. C$COPY to copy a small test file to folder

3. If no Error is returned from C$COPY the user has the rights to that folder

4. C$DELETE to delete small test file from folder

This is where my question comes in...all items above work great except #4...the delete command will not remove the file.  The C$DELETE command returns 1 (error) every time it is ran.


Any help would be great with this or any different way for us to check user access to write to a folder would help also.

It does appear to be a bug. I know that  call "cbl_delete_dir"  works under thin client, so you can blow away the directory thus getting rid of the file but the C$DELETE should work as well and it doesn't.

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