Re: LIBL behavior

I'm with Vern...

The program will always open the first data/display file it finds.

Something else is going on.

Overrides or EXTFILE or perhaps something else...

Are you trying to change the library list between calls? If so, are you
setting on *LR and ending the activation group?

Are you doing the call from the command line? Or from anther RPG program?

Charles




On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I think that as to the DSPF, a program will always find the first one in
the LIBL - it may be possible these days to use the F-spec EXTFILE keyword
to force the program to use a certain file in a certain library.

Now as to the data file, a program WILL find the first file in the library
list, even if in a library lower than the one where the program came from -
there's no binding of files that way, unless you have the EXTFILE keyword
in use.

Something is going on instead of the typical usage, methinks.

Vern


On 12/24/2015 2:40 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

Until yesterday I believed I understood library list behavior.

Lets say we have a library list of:

LBR1
LBR2
LBR3
LBR4

and versions of PRGA with its display file reside in LBR1 and LIBR3
with some data files in both LBR2 and LBR4 and other data files in LBR4.

I get errors when I CALL LBR3/PRGA.

One error is that the program will not find data files in a library lower
in the list than the *PGM's library.
Another is that the *PGM finds the *DSPF that is highest in the list, not
the one in the same library.

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