Re: Transfer Data from Physical file to PC format

[John Hall <jhall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Totally off the wall here - but ...

I had a similar problem with that command that only occurred for some
users.  What seemed to make the difference was changing the assistance
level for the job.

John Hall

JFinney@omnia.co.za wrote:
> 
> Since someone mentioned the CPYTOIMPF command I felt the need to ask this
> question. We are running V4R3 of OS/400 which was only recently upgraded
> from V4R2. I have programs which use the CPYTOIMPF command and immediately
> after the upgrade to V4R3 the command did not copy the packed decimal data
> to the file in the IFS as it had done before. I spoke to our system support
> people and they suggested we reclaim storage and rebuild the database
> cross-reference table. Now when I run the command interactively it doesn't
> copy data at all ! ! !
> If I check the joblog I notice a "Pointer not set for location referenced"
> message. The program name the message is coming from is QSYS/QCPEXPRT and
> the procedure is "Copy_The_Records" . Anybody got any ideas as to what is
> going on here?
> 
> Regards
> John
>
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