RE: CRTDUPOBJ on LF - how does it do this?

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This has worked as far back as I remember (original S/38 days).  As long as
the LF and the PF reside in the same library, CRTDUPOBJ somehow "knows" to
link a copy of the LF with a PF in the copy library.  It's very handy, and
one of the primary reasons we did everything possible to stay away from
"cross-library logicals".  Creating copies of those monsters was nasty,
usually requiring manual ADDLFMs.

Joe

> From: Mark Villa
> 
> I was amazed when shown today that by simply doing: CRTDUPOBJ on an LF to
> the library I happen to copy my physical to, that it works.
> How can this be? I would have bet that a restore was required, isn't this
> the way it used to be?
> 
> Is there anything wrong/different with creating a logical this way rather
> than creating it the old fashion way with CRTLF?
> 
> And finally, has this been available since day 1 on the AS/400, S/38??