Re: CPYF oddity

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:00 AM 7/7/98 -0500, Bob Luebbe wrote:
>We have a problem with a CPYF on V4R1 and V4R2.  It does not appear to be a
>problem on V3R7 and earlier.
>
>First we run the command:
>  OVRDBF FILE(CUSTP01) TOFILE(QTEMP/CUSTP01)
>
>Then we run the command:
>  CPYF FROMFILE(WBLUEBBE/CUSTP01) TOFILE(QGPL/CUSTP01) CRTFILE(*YES)
>
>The following messages are generated by the CPYF command:
>  File CUSTP01 overridden to CUSTP01 in QTEMP.
>  From-file CUSTP01 in QTEMP not found.
>  Copy command ended because of error.
>
>Since we qualify the CPYF statement with the library on both the FROMFILE
>and TOFILE, why is the preceeding OVRDBF overriding the FROM library?  Why
>isn't this a problem on V3R7 and earlier?

Bob,

Like you, I was under the impression that CPYF ignored overrides, so I checked 
the data management guide for V3R1. There is a section entitled "Effect of 
Overrides on Some System Commands". It lists all of the commands that ignore 
overrides entirely. CPYF is not listed. This same manual also states that 
OVRDBF will be ignored for the TOFILE parameter of CPYF when CRTFILE(*YES) is 
also specified, which explains why CPYF did not complain about copying a file 
to itself.

Pete


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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