Re: OVRTAPF Using OPT01

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

I have used the OVRTAPF to read a tape file like a disk file.  In fact 
that was one of the minor selling points on moving to an As/400 from the 
S/36 with it's limited disk space and limited tape processing.  I think I 
may have even used OVRDKTF, but that was many years ago and since our 
release of OS/400 doesn't support diskette anymore I can safely say it's 
no longer in use.  Don't know if you can do a OVROPTF.  That's why I 
suggested an ifs approach.
Just reiterating this for Vern so that he can understand why the author 
wanted to at least try this concept.  Granted a CD is no great shakes of 
space, but why use a two step process if you don't need to?

Rob Berendt
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Kendallville, IN 46755
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This can't be a physical file, can it, since those can't be written to a 
CD, AFAIK. I mean, the contents of a CD are mounted under /QOPT, and that 
is not part of the library-object system.

If it's a PC-type DB file, is it proprietary to a DBMS like MS Access or 
SQL Server? If it's fixed length or delimited, just use CPYFRMIMPF like 
any 
other IFS file, since that's what  it is.

HTH
Vern

At 09:49 AM 1/20/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>Has anyone ever created an application using an OVRTAPF with OPT01?  I'd 
>like to be able to read a DB file from OPT01 and was wondering if I need 
>the OVRTAPF. Is such a thing possible?


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