Re: CPYLIB and no records copied

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 23 October 2003 21:15, William Washington III wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Has anyone noticed a change in the CPYLIB command?  Last year, I would
> clear my test library, then do a CPYLIB FROMLIB(production) TOLIB(test)
> CRTLIB(*NO) to refresh my test library with new data.

I *think* I've seen a difference depending on whether the TOLIB already 
exists. It's just using CRTDUPOBJ under the covers, from what I 
understand, and maybe it's using DATA(*YES) for CRTLIB(*YES) & DATA(*NO) 
for CRTLIB(*NO). Haven't used it often enough (or recently, for that 
matter) to tell for sure.

> Now, it seems that all of the files are brought over, but they have
> zero data records!
>
> I'd hate to think I'll have to individually copy files from prodcution
> to test.  Tell me I'm wrong!

Well, you *could* use my free test environment tools to do the work for 
you ;) They can create a test library, then create a copy of any 
referenced files, etc from target program(s). Data can be copied across 
by scripts that can do straight CPYFs, or built in SQL to get subsets of 
data. http://www.dbg400.net/dbg400.html for details & code download.

Regards, Martin  
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