Re: New "Feature"?

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:46 10/09/1998 , Dean Asmussen wrote:
>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?

Boy, I've been doing this for years so that I could use DSPPFM to browse a file 
in the sequence of the logical at client sites that didn't have DBU or SHWFC. I 
don't remember a time when it didn't work on the /400. Every now and then you 
can still turn up a pearl...

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

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