CPYF behavior

Hi,

After reading Simon Coulter's words on the CPYF command in the RPG-400
mailing list, perhaps you,  Simon, or someone else can explain why CPYF
behaves differently regarding an empty "from" file. In the 1st instance,
CPYF simply gives a completion message, CPC2957:

crtpf qtemp/test rcdlen(1)
File TEST created in library QTEMP.
Member TEST added to file TEST in QTEMP.

cpyf qtemp/test qtemp/test1 crtfile(*yes) mbropt(*replace)
Physical file TEST1 created in library QTEMP.
Member TEST added to file TEST1 in QTEMP.
No records copied from file TEST in QTEMP.


While in this instance, it gives the escape message, CPF2817:

cpyf qtemp/test qtemp/test1 crtfile(*yes) mbropt(*replace)
Empty member TEST in file TEST in library QTEMP is not copied.
Copy command ended because of error.


Just curious.

Also, thanks for the tip about CPF2817 containing the diagnostic message's
ID in its message data. This would be more obvious if CPF2817 showed the
message data in either the 1st or 2nd level text.

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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