RE: CPYF question

Thanks to Ted, wherever you are! Thanks, Google.

I got it working with the hex41 example, and copied exactly one record 
instead of the previous 7. Here's a clip from the job log:

7400 - CPYF FROMFILE(EAM900F/ZPTMST) TOFILE(TEAMS/XZPTMST) 
FROMMBR(*FIRST) TOMBR(*FIRST) MBROPT(*REPLACE) CRTFILE(*NO) INCREL((*IF 
PTCMPY *EQ '02') (*AND PTLOC *EQ '0893') (*AND PTLOC *LT '0893  ') (*AND 
PTPART *EQ 'FOE6NN7N057A') (*AND PTPART *LT 'FOE6NN7N057A  ')) 
FMTOPT(*MAP *DROP) 

Notice that the hex41 plugs in a trailing blank for both the location and 
the part number.


Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
708-670-6978  Cell
pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx





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Yuck.  May I recommend that you give consideration to OPNQRYF & 
CPYFRMQRYF?
If you look at the article that prompted the one you linked, at
http://www.itjungle.com/guruo/mgo012302-story02.html, even Ted recommends
this approach.

I can't believe IBM let this slip by.  Was this the behavior right from 
the
beginning of CPYF on the S/38?

What should be done about this?  On the one hand, it should be considered 
a
bug, and be corrected.  Paul was lucky in that he discovered this in
testing.  Others might not catch it and pay a big price later.  On the 
other
hand, 25+ years of history with this bug with programs using it, perhaps
expecting this as a desirable behavior?  (Yeah, 'MI' *EQuals 'MIabc'; 
sounds
like new math to me!)

Maybe the "fix" would be that IBM adds another parameter to CPYF: 
EQMEANSEQ
(*YES or *NO).

Bleahh, bleahh, bleahh.

db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 9:08 AM
>
> I've given up. I'm going to try this approach:
>
> http://www.itjungle.com/mgo/mgo082802-story01.html
>
>
> Paul Nelson
> Arbor Solutions, Inc.
> 708-670-6978  Cell
> pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx

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