Re: Logical files

>Must be one of those days.  I need to take a logical file that is reference
>to a physical file in one library and change the file that is references.  I
>can not remember the name of the command to do this.
>
>
>Scott Swaim
>scott@qualitycorps.com


There is no command I know of that will change a logical file to point to a
different physical file.  Once the logical is created, and the link to the
physical established, that's it.  If you have the source code for the
logical file, just compile it into the library where the physical file
lives.

You -can- clone a logical file, assuming you have 2 identical files (same
record layout, format names, etc. etc.) in 2 separate libraries, 1 of which
has a logical file pointing to it.

1) Make sure that both the logical and the physical it references are in
the same library!  THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!  If they are not in the same
library, use the MOVOBJ command so they are.  You can move the logical back
where it came from once you're done cloning it.

2) Use the CRTDUPOBJ command and duplicate the LF to the library where the
2nd physical file lives.

Done!  Move the 1st logical file back where it came from.

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


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