Tips about redirecting files

 

Some redirection combinations present special problems due to the specific characteristics of the device.

In particular:

• You should not redirect save files.

• You can redirect nonsequentially processed database files only to another database file or a DDM file.

• You can redirect Display files and ICF files that use multiple devices (MAXDEV or MAXPGMDEV > 1) only to a display file or ICF file.

• Redirecting a display file to any other file type, or another file type to a display file, requires that the program be recompiled with the override active if there are any input-only or output-only fields. This is necessary because the display file omits these fields from the record buffer in which it does not use them, but other file types do not.

 

Parent topic:

File redirection