Re: New "Feature"?

[eric.delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

     Sorry Dean, but I think that's been supported since I started on 
     the as400 (v2r1). One of the first utilities I wrote for myself 
     would take "snapshots" of some data (PF & LF) using cpyf. 
     
     Eric DeLong


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Subject: New "Feature"? 
Author:  <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > at INET_WACO
Date:    10/9/98 4:46 AM


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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