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

Nope.

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>From:  Jon Erickson[SMTP:jonerickson@vikingindustries.com]
>Sent:  Friday, December 12, 1997 10:53 AM
>To:    'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
>Subject:       RE: AS/400 Tips & Techniques - December 1997 News/400
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>Are you using SHARE(*YES) in the OVRDBF?  Just a thought.
>
>Regards,
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>Jon A. Erickson - Viking Industries
>jonerickson@vikingindustries.com
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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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