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Restrictions for Year 2000 support<br />
Copying complex objects<br />
134 <strong>File</strong> <strong>Management</strong> V4R5<br />
Record selection (FROMKEY, TOKEY, INCCHAR, and INCREL parameters) for<br />
CPY is not enhanced for the PACKED, ZONED, and CHARACTER data types<br />
having the DATFMT keyword. They are treated as their actual field type indicates,<br />
and a DATFMT specified on them is ignored for these parameters.<br />
Likewise, when copying a logical file with PACKED, ZONED, or CHARACTER<br />
fields having the DATFMT specified to a like type PACKED, ZONED, or<br />
CHARACTER physical file field, the DATFMT on the from-field is ignored. No<br />
DATE conversions take place in these instances.<br />
For ZONED and PACKED fields, if the length is not valid for the current job’s<br />
DATFMT and assumed form, copy file diagnostic messages CPF2960 and CPF2963<br />
is issued followed by a CPF2817 escape message.<br />
If the length of the field is valid for the current job’s DATFMT, the system attempts<br />
to convert/copy it from or to the DATE field. The system sends a CPF2958<br />
message and the to-field is set with its default value:<br />
v If the field value is incorrect (such as 13 for the month portion of *MDY form) or<br />
v If a mapping error occurred because the data is not in the assumed form for the<br />
PACKED or ZONED field<br />
The default value may be NULL, some user-defined value, or the default data-type<br />
value.<br />
You can copy from and to files that contain user-defined functions (UDFs),<br />
user-defined types (UDTs), DataLinks (DLs), and large objects (LOBs). This topic<br />
describes AS/400 data management support for these objects.<br />
Copying files that contain user-defined functions<br />
You can specify CRTFILE(*YES) on the CPYF and CPYFRMQRYF commands when<br />
you copy files that contain user-defined functions (UDFs). UDFs do not get created<br />
with the new to-file.<br />
You cannot copy DDM files that contain user-defined functions to AS/400 systems<br />
running at Version 4 Release 3 or earlier.<br />
Copying files that contain user-defined types<br />
You can specify CRTFILE(*YES) on the CPYF and CPYFRMQRYF commands when<br />
you copy files that contain user-defined types (UDTs). If the from-file is an SQL<br />
table, view, or index that contains a UDT, these commands create an SQL table.<br />
You can copy UDTs to other UDTs using FMTOPT(*MAP), provided that you are<br />
copying from and to the same (identical) UDT. You can also copy from a non-UDT<br />
to a UDT, provided that the source type is compatible. Data mapping is not<br />
allowed if you are copying between UDTs that are not identical. Also, data<br />
mapping is not allowed if you are copying from a UDT to a non-UDT.
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