Re: AS/400 Tips & Techniques - December 1997 News/400

Dave,

In a message dated 97-12-11 20:02:55 EST, you write:

> I was implementing a tip in the December 1997 News/400 magazine on
>  creating a service program wrapper over QCMDEXC (pg. 65) when I came
>  across a strange situation.  The procedure works fine for every command
>  I've tried except for an override data base file (OVRDBF).  Everything
>  runs and the procedure completes fine, however, the override is never in
>  effect after executing the procedure.  I suspect it's related to the
>  program call level.

Don't know about your specific example of News/400 code or ILE, but in the
archaic (better known as "plain ol'") RPG/400 model you must specify the file
as "UC" (user controlled) and perform a manual OPEN on it _AFTER_ you have
performed the override via QCMDEXC.

HTH,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious."
-- Anonymous
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