Re: RPG prototype for C-language FILE *

On 1/14/2016 5:08 PM, John Yeung wrote:

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 3:05 PM, <tegger@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I forgot about the straight CPY command. Never remember it until after the fact. As with most IBM copy commands, doesn't it give some sort of status when it is copying? The idea was to avoid it all together as the nature of the files being copied and the management reasoning behind it.

I have no idea what you mean. What "status when it is copying"? I
actually don't know of ANY commands that give a status *while* it is
doing something.

You issue the command, it does the copy. You don't find out anything
until after it's done.

Several 'long running' commands issue *STATUS messages. You can see
this yourself with CPYF:

CALL QCMD /* get to a command line */
CPYF BIGFILE QTEMP/X CRTFILE(*YES) /* use a file with at least 100k
records */

While CPYF is running, you will see a message at the bottom of the
display to the effect of 'Copying member or label aaaaa in file aaaaa in
lllll'. When CPYF completes, the message goes away. There is no record
of this message in the job log.