http://systeminetwork.com/article/7-zip-running-i

Once you have 7-zip running in PASE, you would issue the following command to create a file that's encrypted with a strong AES cipher (this is a PASE command-line call)

7z a -t7z encryptedfile.7z -p+secretpasswordhere+ inputfile.csv

replace +secretpasswordhere +with the password you'd like to use for your encryption. You will need to give this password to whomever receives the file. I suggest using the telephone or postal mail to notify them rather than e-mail.

On a Windows system (most likely the target?) they can use the 7-Zip GUI from the following site to unpack/decrypt the file:

http://www.7-zip.org/

On a Unix/Linux system, you can get p7zip (the same thing you have on IBM i) that doesn't provide a GUI, but does provide a command-line interface:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/

Anyway, PATH consists of a list of IFS directories separated by colons. To see what your PATH is right now inside QP2TERM, type the following:

echo $PATH

The "echo" utility prints stuff on the screen. Any time you see a dollar sign ($) it means "insert variable value here". So "echo $PATH" means "insert the value of the PATH variable -- then print it."

I should also note that PATH is case-sensitive. It must be all uppecase "PATH", not "path".

It sounds like you put 7z in /usr/local/bin, but /usr/local/bin isn't in your PATH, so it's not looking there for program names. An easy way to fix that is to do:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

So this changes the value of PATH. It inserts the current PATH value (again, using the dollar sign) and adds :/usr/local/bin to the end. after running that command, it should find 7z -- but that'll only work until you exit PASE, because you only changed it for the current session. Now there are many approaches to changing it so that /usr/local/bin is always in your PATH -- but I don't want to try to explain every possibility, so I'll just give you one way.

display your existing path, and copy/paste it into Notepad or something like that.

Then add :/usr/local/bin to the end.

Then run the following command from the standard (not PASE) command line:

*ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(PASE_PATH) VALUE('whatever you want in your path') LEVEL(*SYS)*

For example:

*ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(PASE_PATH) VALUE('/QOpenSys/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/QOpenSys/usr/bin/X11:/usr/sbin:.:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/Zend/Core/bin:/usr/local/mysql/mysql/bin:/usr/local/bin') LEVEL(*SYS)*

On my system, I've added /usr/local/bin, but I've also added Zend Core and MySQL... hope you get the idea. Anyway, once you've set the PASE_PATH (like PATH, this name is case-sensitive) you should sign-off and back on again for this to take effect. From that point on, it should always find programs in /usr/local/bin automatically.

CPYTOIMPF FROMFILE(CUSTMAS) 
          TOSTMF('/home/klemscot/custmas.csv') 
          STMFCODPAG(1252) 
          RCDDLM(*CRLF) 
          RMVBLANK(*BOTH)

CALL QP2TERM

Archive/Encrypt the CSV file:

7z a -pchickenpox -t7z custmas.7z custmas.csv 

Then I FTP the file to my PC. I was careful to use binary mode during the FTP process.

From Windows, I click Start -> All Programs -> 7-Zip -> 7-Zip File Manager

I navigate to the custmas.7z file, and double-click it until it asks me for a password. I enter "chickenpox" (matching the -p I used when encrypting it) and it unpacks it as I expect... works just fine.