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  3. July 2006

CPYF Command Error?

I encountered something new this afternoon. Seems like a bug to me but, before I report it, I wanted to know if it is, indeed, a bug or anomaly. 


I wrote a CL that sets up a test file.  The CL contains:

   OVRDBF   FILE(FILEA)  TOFILE(LIBA/FILEA)

A conversion program runs.  Then I have a CPYF command:

CPYF       FROMFILE(LIBB/FILEB)                         +
            TOFILE(LIBC/FILEA) MBROPT(*REPLACE)               +
FMTOPT(*MAP *DROP)
The anomaly (to me, anyway) is that, even though the CPYF's TOFILE explicitly names the library as LIBC, it was the LIBA file that got the copy. Once I put a DLTOVR FILEA between the conversion program and the CPYF command things went as I expected (i.e., LIBC/FILEA received the data).
Am I in error to expect an explicit definition (TOFILE(LIBC/FILEA) in this case) to take precedence over an OVRDBF? I mean, if I had simply said TOFILE(FILEA) I could understand what happened; i.e., the override being used instead of necessarily searching the library list. 


Thanks.

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