Re: CRTPF question?

Tim,

In a message dated 97-08-04 21:07:25 EDT, you write:

> Why isn't there a keyword on the CRTPF CL command that will give you an
>  option to reserve the files existing data and then *ADD the data back
>  using the FMTOPT(*NOCHK) for you?  Is this a stupid question?  But the
>  OS400 developers seemed to have thought of everything so I am suprised
>  that you have to go thru several steps when changing a physical file
>  (Change the DDS, CRTDUPOBJ the current file, then CRTPF the new blank
>  file, then CPYF the old data into it) Is there a good reason for these
>  methodical steps? 

Not a stupid question at all.  Take heart, you COULD be using the AS/Set CASE
tool which performs this function as long as it "feels like it".  Sometimes,
AS/Set drops the data for no reason.  Compiling files is one of the single
hardest paradigms for people going straight from the S/36 to the AS/400 to
comprehend.  Although I personally would prefer FMTOPT(*MAP *DROP) as the
default, I really do not know why IBM chose to blow away the data
altogether...

I Hear 'Ya

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM

"If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop
them." -- Yogi Berra
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