Re: New "Feature"?

[Leo Lefebvre <leo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dean,

Unfortunately for you, that 'feature' has always been there (ie since the first
release of S/38).
The output always has been a 'physical' file. For a multi-record logical file, 
you
have to specify a record/format name and can specify only one. The output 
records
in the physical file will contain only the fields in the logical file.

DAsmussen@aol.com wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> A "newbie" was asking me about a "feature" today, and I'd never seen it
> before!  Perhaps it was the early training that said that there's no data in a
> logical file, but I would swear that at one time at least, CPYF wouldn't even
> work against a logical!  Now, this manager that knows enough to be dangerous
> tried a CPYF for testing against a logical instead of CRTDUPOBJ and it
> _WORKED_ (sort of)!  Under V4R1, if you CPYF from a logical file to the same
> (non-existent) name in another library with the CRTFILE parm set to *YES, it
> creates a KEYED PHYSICAL FILE WITH ALL THE DATA, FIELD DESCRIPTIONS, AND THE
> KEY BASED UPON THE LOGICAL!!!  Has this always been there, or is it new?
>
> Regards!
>
> Dean Asmussen
> Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
> E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
>
> "I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages." -- Bill Mauldin
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