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

Are you using SHARE(*YES) in the OVRDBF?  Just a thought.

Regards,
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Jon A. Erickson - Viking Industries
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-----Original Message-----
From:   John Carr [SMTP:74711.77@compuserve.com]
Sent:   Thursday, December 11, 1997 7:32 PM
To:     Midrange-L
Subject:        AS/400 Tips & Techniques - December 1997 News/400


Date:   12/11/97  7:43 PM

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

>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.
>
>Any thoughts, or am I just missing something?
>
>Thanks,
>Dave

I believe what you found out is why a QCMDEXEC with an OVRDBF called
from an RPG program will effect the the RPG program that subsequently 
does an OPEN.  

By this I mean that the QCMDEXEC runs at the same invocation as the 
of the program it is called from.  If you call a CL program from an
RPG that does an OVRDBF and then returns to the RPG program, the 
OVRDBF is gone.  Thus the reason to do the override using QCMDEXEC
from RPG.  Thus your problem. 

I probably made this as clear as mud.

But there it is.

John Carr       
EdgeTech

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