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  • Subject: RE: New "Feature"?
  • From: "Fisher, Don" <DRF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 07:41:04 -0400

Actually, this "feature" has always been there.  I've done the same thing on
previous releases of the operating system.

Don Fisher
Heilig-Meyers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DAsmussen@aol.com [SMTP:DAsmussen@aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 09, 1998 4:46 AM
> To:   midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      New "Feature"?
> 
> 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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