Re: New "Feature"?

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>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





CPYF could always read a LF.  Just when it would let you create a PF that
looks like the LF on the fly, I'm not sure.  It's been there for a long
time.  I've used it for creating test files (and have been surprised when I
find the file's not the same as the original!!).

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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