RE: OVRDBF

Frank,

It depends on your override scope and how you are using activation
groups.  The IBM override scope default is *ACTGRPDFN.  If you take the
default and any of the programs you are invoking run in named activation
groups your overrid won't be effective.  If they all run in the same
activation group things should be working as you expect.

The following is from IBM's help.

*ACTGRPDFN                                                 
    The scope of the override is determined by the         
    activation group of the program that calls this        
    command.  When the activation group is the default     
    activation group, the scope equals the call level of   
    the calling program.  When the activation group is not 
    the default activation group, the scope equals the    
    activation group of the calling program.              
                                                          
*CALLLVL                                                  
    The scope of the override is determined by the current
    call level.  All open operations done at a call level 
    that is the same as or higher than the current call   
    level are influenced by this override.                
                                                          
*JOB                                                      
    The scope of the override is the job in which the 
    override occurs.                                  

-----Original Message-----
From: fkany@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fkany@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:17 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: OVRDBF



If a CL program uses OVRDBF FILE(X_LIBRARY/X_FILE) TOFILE(QTEMP/X_FILE)
before CALLing PGM(RPG_1) then RPG_1 calls RPG_2 then RPG_2 calls RPG_3
which actually uses X_FILE, is RPG_3 using X_LIBRARY/X_FILE or
QTEMP/X_FILE?

I believe it should be using QTEMP/X_FILE, but I would just like to have
this confirmed.

TIA,

Frank

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