RE: copy file problems / documented "feature"

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From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of RBBaird@premsys.com
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 8:27 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: copy file problems / documented "feature"

Peter,

Not very elegant, but not only do I not see a better way, I don't see ANY other way.

something like this?

        DCL  &CMD *CHAR 256
       DCL  &CMDLEN *DEC  (15 5) VALUE(256)
       DCL  &NAME   *CHAR (10)
          CHGVAR &CMD 'CPYF FROMFILE(file1) TOFILE(lib1/file2)
             MBROPT(*REPLACE) CRTFILE(*YES)
             INCREL((*IF DQNAME *EQ ''' *CAT &NAME *BCAT '''))'
       CALL QCMDEXC (&CMD &CMDLEN)

thanks for the hand!

Bottom line though, even if you key in the command from a command line, you still have to imbed a space in quotes.  The problem I have with IBMs implementation is that the operator is *EQ for EQUAL not *LK for LIKE!  If you want to check positions of a field rather than the whole field, you can use the INCCHAR parameter.  OPNQRYF, SQL, QRY/400, et al do not behave this way.  why should copyfile?

Has this always been the case with this command?  Doesn't it seem VERY wrong to anyone else?

Thanks again,

Rick

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