RE: copy file problems / documented "feature"

["Richard Jackson" <richardjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is only "very wrong" when viewed from this point of view.  It was "really wonderful" 20 years ago when it came out.  Now, it is "nearly impossible" to change it without breaking the most important IBM rule that there is, "never change something that currently works because people rely on it".  This rule goes back to 1401 and 360 upgrade days and, in my opinion, IBM will never break this rule in a big way - their customers nearly put them out of business when they broke that rule. 

 

Richard Jackson
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of RBBaird@premsys.com
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 8:27 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: copy file problems / documented "feature"

Peter,

Not very elegant, but not only do I not see a better way, I don't see ANY other way.

something like this?

        DCL  &CMD *CHAR 256
       DCL  &CMDLEN *DEC  (15 5) VALUE(256)
       DCL  &NAME   *CHAR (10)
          CHGVAR &CMD 'CPYF FROMFILE(file1) TOFILE(lib1/file2)
             MBROPT(*REPLACE) CRTFILE(*YES)
             INCREL((*IF DQNAME *EQ ''' *CAT &NAME *BCAT '''))'
       CALL QCMDEXC (&CMD &CMDLEN)

thanks for the hand!

Bottom line though, even if you key in the command from a command line, you still have to imbed a space in quotes.  The problem I have with IBMs implementation is that the operator is *EQ for EQUAL not *LK for LIKE!  If you want to check positions of a field rather than the whole field, you can use the INCCHAR parameter.  OPNQRYF, SQL, QRY/400, et al do not behave this way.  why should copyfile?

Has this always been the case with this command?  Doesn't it seem VERY wrong to anyone else?

Thanks again,

Rick

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