Re: CRTDUPOBJ and OVRPRTF command.

[Vernon Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick

At 02:33 PM 6/19/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>We are about to go thru a huge battery of tests on a huge number of
>program changes at one of our clients.  Our problem is that during
>these tests, a huge number of reports will be printed, all on
>production printers (because of ovrprtf commands throughout each job).
>
>Since our testing will be done during regular business hours, so all
>these extra reports may confuse the rank and file.  
>
>What I thought I could do was to create my own version of OVRPRTF that
>would ignore the "DEV" and "OUTQ" parameters, but process the others,
>and put it above QSYS during testing.
>
>I'm having trouble creating the CPP for the command though.
>
>Is there some way of knowing how and what parameters are passed to the
>regular CPP and in what order?  It doesn't seem to be working the way
>I thought.
>
>Does anyone have another suggestion on how to stop the overrides from
>printing?
>
>(using a different developement box for testing is an option, but a
>last resort)

I sometimes use Pete Hall's approach, but I tend to use a CL program with a
single very long parameter. Everything shows up, and then you need to
figure out what's what. Trouble is that lots of the *XXX values are
converted into numeric values.

HTH

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55401-2499
(612) 371-1111 x480


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