RE: OVRPRTF within RPGILE

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 16:30:52 -0500
>From: "DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@Sallybeauty.com>
>
>What form of command line processor are you using? If you've proto'd the
>QCMDEXC, then you probably need to use the override scope parm on the
>OVRPRTF command. An OVRSCOPE of *ACTGRPDFN should get you there. An
>alternative to this could be to use the "system" command from the C/C++
>runtime. This form of the command line executes at the same call level as
>the RPG IV program and is immune from the *CALLLVL problem you've
>experienced.

Eric, QCMDEXC behaves the same as system() with respect to overrides.
The problem with using QCMDEXC to do overrides is when you've written
another wrapper procedure that actually calls QCMDEXC.  Then it's your
own procedure that introduces the new call level.

Barbara Morris

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