RE: How to dup files but NO data

If this library has logical files, you might want to duplicate the physical
files first, THEN the logicals. This is from the V5R1 help:

--begin--
For files, the duplicate object shares the format of the original file.
When a logical file is copied into another library, two cases determine the
basing for the file.  First, if both the logical file and its based-on
physical file are originally in the same library, a duplicate of the
physical file must be created in the new library before a duplicate of the
logical file is created.  After these two duplicates are created, the new
logical file is based on the new physical file.

                                                                    
Second, if the logical file and its based-on physical file are originally in
different libraries, it is not necessary to duplicate the physical file
before duplicating the logical file.  In this case, the duplicated logical
file is based on the same physical file as was the original logical file.
Unlike the first case, even if the physical file is copied into the new
library before the logical file is copied, the duplicated logical file is
based on the original physical file, not on the duplicated physical file.
--end--

I wrote a command to duplicate a data library on our development box; it
uses 2 CLs. The first one gets a list of the objects in a reference library
and duplicates everything except the logical files. The second one
duplicates only the logical files.

I don't know if it's any different on V5R3 or V5R4.


Francis Lapeyre
IS Dept. Programmer/Analyst
Stewart Enterprises, Inc.
E-mail: flapeyre@xxxxxxxx 

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We would like to duplicate/restore many files to another library but don't
want any data in the files.
Is there any simple way to do it beside clearing data in the files one by
one?
Thanks in advance.


Best Regards.

James Fu

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