Re: Creating a physical AND Logical file

Tom,
 surely if the shops standards is to specify QTEMP wherever a reference is
made to a file in QTEMP, to me your code means that you are searching for
that file in your library list that no longer contains QTEMP. If you were
looking for the file in QTEMP then you should have coded accordingly.


Alan Shore

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midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/12/2007 11:25:08 PM:

But keep in mind that QTEMP is created for the job and is accessible
by that job _regardless_ of whether it's listed in the job's library
list. The only reason to place it in the list is so that it gets
_searched_ when an object needs to be located and no library is given.

For example:

   rmvlible QTEMP
   cpyf QIWS/QCUSTCDT QTEMP/tmpcust crtfile(*yes)
   chkobj *LIBL/tmpcust *file

...gives CPF9801 "Object TMPCUST in library QTEMP not found."
(assuming one isn't unexpectedly elsewhere in the list.)

But that's not because the 'scratchpad' doesn't exist. QTEMP is
still there and TMPCUST is still in it. That can be shown by:

   chkobj QTEMP/tmpcust *file

No CPF9801. Object was found just fine.

Removing QTEMP from the library list doesn't delete the library; it
just makes library list searches shorter. Granted, the searches also
fail to find objects in QTEMP; but I was trying to understand why
jobs would create objects that _needed_ to be "searched" for in the
first place. Especially if they'll _only_ be found at the very last
place that can be searched.

It seems to be deliberately worsening performance for no benefit.

I wondered if anyone had good reasons, ones that I'd failed to imagine.

Tom Liotta

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