Re: Weird problem a customer is having with a file (James H H Lampert)

"James H H Lampert" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.as400.mi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Mark S. Waterbury" <[email protected]> wrote:
. . .
> use CPYF from the renamed original file to the new 
>file, with ERRLVL(*NOMAX) to ignore any errors.
. . .

The plot thickens:

I simply tried doing a CPYF of the entire "problem" file 
(it's not very big) to a new one, freshly compiled from 
DDS, with ostensibly the same structure, with *NOCHK and 
ERRLVL(*NOMAX).

CPYF refused to copy the "problem" record.

So we've got a file that (with sufficient doctoring) 
QuestView can read, but which CPYF can't.

Just to be sure, I tried it not only on the V4R2 box that 
has succeeded our late, lamented V2R3 box as the seat of 
QuestView development, but also on the V5R2 test box that 
I used to initially restore the customer's save file.

This just keeps getting weirder.

Mark: If I understand your suggestions correctly, you said 
something about having Query pour its result directly into 
a file that's been properly compiled from DDS. I'm not 
exactly a Query/400 expert (I'm much more familiar with 
OPNQRYF and SQL). Could you explain that, in words of two 
syllables or less?

--
JHHL
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