Re: Cannot Add a logical file member. Not sure why

Pete,

The box has always worked like that.

Consider, create DUPLICATE object....technically a byte for byte
duplicate of a logical would _always_ point to the same PF the
original did. IBM decide to make our lives a little easier by having
it check to see if the original logical and the physical file it
pointed to were in the same library. If so and if the destination
library had a physical of the same name, then the duplicate of the
logical would point to the physical in the destination library.

In all other cases, the duplicate of the logical continues to point to
the same PF the original did, as that results in an accurate
duplicate. Could it have been smarter? Perhaps, but then you'd end
up with a whole mess of behaviors to remember and somebody would still
complain.

HTH,
Charles


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The PF only had a single member and, after the CRTLF and the failure to
add a member, the LF had no members at all.  So, I am not sure what the
RMVM and ADDLFM would have bought me. Ken seems to think that using
CRTDUPOBJ on a logical when that logical and the referenced physical are
in two different libraries won't work *IF* the resulting physical and
logical are going to be in the same library.  That has been my
experienced. I'd rather use CRTDUPOBJ to create the logical so that I
don't have to deal with level checks anyway.

Still scratching my head on this one.  But, I have a work around.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.asaap.com
www.opensource4i.com


On 10/26/2010 2:30 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

An alternative would have been to RMVM and ADDLFM.
If the PF is multimember (shudder) you just created a LF over all the
members.

The advantage of not recreating the LF from source is that you do not lose
any security or other unique properties that may have been on the file in
the production library.


Rob Berendt

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