RE: Commands inside RPG (was RE: authority question....)

Ken:

Just to be sure I'm understanding, is that another way of saying that the 
default values are more likely to be appropriate?

Except for a couple cases where I've used OVRDBF to override from a 
compile-time IBM-supplied model file to an actual run-time file, I've had no 
need for overrides for quite a few years; that's just been the nature of the 
code base in the areas I've worked. And even then, the defaults were already 
appropriate because the activation groups were created as needed.

When a feature isn't used much, rust starts to form. Might as well make sure 
I'm clear.

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   1. Re: Commands inside RPG (was RE: authority question....)
>      (Ken Sims)
>
>>In any case, how does running an override within RPG reduce concern over 
>>scoping, etc.? Is that primarily from the idea that default values are 
>>more likely to be appropriate?
>
>QCMDEXC, and persumably QCAPCMD, even though they don't run in the calling 
>program's activation group, are smart to process override commands as 
>though they were being issued from within that activation group, thereby 
>getting around the problem of overrides not being used because they aren't 
>scoped to the right activation group.
>
>Ken
>http://www.ke9nr.net/
>Opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of 
>my employer or anyone in their right mind.

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