Re: What command will copy an entire IFS directory and its contents

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This got me interested in the other parameter values for subtree. *ALL 
does what I expect and have used - all the content is copied - 
subdirectories are content, so they are all copied.

*NODIR is the default - help text has words I understand but it didn't 
make sense at first - what happens is, the copy fails if you are copying 
a directory to a different parent directory. If you copy to the one 
where it already is, the copy does not fail, but nothing really happens.

*NONE is kind of interesting - the directory is copied to the other 
parent directory, with nothing in it - so the subtree is empty.

Why not just MkDir?

I actually would like at times to copy the subtree with no objects other 
than directories, to replicate the structure - so a *DIRONLY option for 
this parameter would be nice.

I can maybe see, Paul, wanting to do what you maybe expected - only the 
objects at the first level down - maybe an *OBJONLY value, so as not to 
take the directories and their contents.

Curious!!

Vern

On 3/13/2015 10:08 AM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:
> Friday senior moment, da.
>
> CPY OBJ('/TEST') TODIR('/TESTCOPY/') SUBTREE(*ALL) REPLACE(*YES)
>
> Copy successful but with an extra directory level
>
> TESTCOPY	dir
> TEST		dir
> Contents	stmf
>
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Bronski
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> Subject: Re: What command will copy an entire IFS directory and its contents
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> Did you change the "Directory subtree" command on CPY?
>
> On 3/13/2015 3:22 PM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:
> > What command will copy an entire IFS directory and its contents.
> > I thought CPY would do this, but only items with the directory.
> >
> >
> > Thank You
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