Re: CPYF Command Error? -- MIDRANGE-L

Thanks, guys. I usually do as you suggest, Darrell. But this was a"simple" short shelf life CL so, I guess, I subconsciously (orunconsciously) decided to take a short cut. Just never gave it muchthought before and never [to my knowledge .-)] encountered it before.

I did try to find a reference to this behavior in the CL manual butdidn't find anything.

I'll defer to the consensus that this is normal behavior. But it stilldoesn't seem logical. However, we'll just chalk that one up to being ahistory major.


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Darrell A Martin wrote:

Jerry:
This is expected behavior. The override takes precedence over the libraryspecification.
I usually set each override immediately before the point of its intendeduse. I then delete it immediately after that point. At least, I do so whenthere is any chance that I will be processing a different instance of thefile at a different point in the program, and if I suspect that it couldever become an ease of maintenance problem later on.
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CPYF Command Error?
I encountered something new this afternoon. Seems like a bug to me but,before I report it, I wanted to know if it is, indeed, a bug or anomaly.
I wrote a CL that sets up a test file.  The CL contains:

   OVRDBF   FILE(FILEA)  TOFILE(LIBA/FILEA)

A conversion program runs.  Then I have a CPYF command:

CPYF       FROMFILE(LIBB/FILEB)                         +
            TOFILE(LIBC/FILEA) MBROPT(*REPLACE)               +
FMTOPT(*MAP *DROP)
The anomaly (to me, anyway) is that, even though the CPYF's TOFILEexplicitly names the library as LIBC, it was the LIBA file that got thecopy. Once I put a DLTOVR FILEA between the conversion program and theCPYF command things went as I expected (i.e., LIBC/FILEA received thedata).
Am I in error to expect an explicit definition (TOFILE(LIBC/FILEA) inthis case) to take precedence over an OVRDBF? I mean, if I had simplysaid TOFILE(FILEA) I could understand what happened; i.e., the overridebeing used instead of necessarily searching the library list.
Thanks.