Source for AFP objects is really a stream file, but has been traditionally stored in data files on IBMi as there were no stream files at all when AFP first met AS400. So, you CAN store AFP source (including *OVL source) in a source file member. Copy it carefully, though so record lengths match. It is ugly source and you won't be able to edit it with SEU. You'll have to copy it back to a PFM for CRTOVL. CRTOVL doesn't care what the record length is, so change the file to LVLCHK(*NO). I copied one to a source file and back to a physical file and CRTOVL worked; I don't have a way to see if the overlay actually looks the same. I used a 120 byte record for the physical file and 132 for the source file so the entire record fits in the source record area. *CVTSRC doesn't seem to affect anything.
I don't know Aldon LMi. Can you manage stream files with Aldon? Might be better to copy the *OVL source to a stream file and manage it that way.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stone, Joel
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:12 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: AFP promotion using Aldon LMi
Aldon's response is that LMi is not capable of promoting source for AFP overlays.
Surely someone must have a workaround as this is one of the popular s/w lifecycle managers on the iseries and AFP is also popular.
Any suggestions on how to promote *OVL source with the *OVL object using Aldon LMi?
The problem seems to be that IBM stores the source in a data file instead of a source file like RPG and CL.
Thanks
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sam_L
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 7:04 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: AFP promotion using Aldon LMi
Call Aldon (Rocket) Support. If you do it first thing in the morning you've got a better chance of immediate attention.
Or e-mail them now and you might have an answer by tomorrow.
Sam
On 4/23/2013 6:21 PM, Stone, Joel wrote:
There are two items to promote thru Aldon:
#1) the overlay in source form (human-readable) which is stored in a
NON-standard source file (DSPFD type = data) named AFPSRC;
#2) the overlay OBJECT type = *OVL.
#2 seems to promote well, but we would like to carry the source #1 thru the promotion also. How can that be done?
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