Re: DISP-NEW and RPG/ILE program?

Charles,

In the 36 environment running an RPG36 program, the file does not have to exist before the program runs. The combination of type 'O' on the File-spec and the DISP-NEW in the OCL says, in fact, that the file had better not exist before the program runs.

However, as you know, both RPG III and RPG IV require that the files be available (exist) when they are opened. Create the file before running the ILE program and then, if you still want to use OCL/36, change the DISP- parameter to OLD. My suggestion, though, is to convert the OCL to a CLP with all of the necessary overrides, CRTxx's, etc., that the OCL was expecting. Just as if you had created the necessary CL for the associated program from scratch.

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Charles St-Laurent wrote:

Hi!

I converted a RPG/36 program to ILE (V5R1). The program is used in an OCL/36 with a LOAD instruction. In the FILE block, I have a DISP-NEW attribute for a file. With RPG/36 version of the program, everything works fine. With the RPG/ILE version of the file, I receive a CPF4102 message when the program tries to run...

Is there any limitation about using DISP-NEW with a ILE program?

Thanks in advance for your answers
Charles