RE: QCMDEXC & OVRPRTF anomaly -- MIDRANGE-L

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I still haven't found an answer on this. I'm thinking about putting a check to determine if the override is in place. Is there an API or IBMi Service I can use to retrieve active overrides? DSPOVR doesn't offer an *OUTFILE option (and I'm loathe to return to the dark ages of parsing spooled files).

Thanks

From: Justin Taylor
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 11:08 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L (midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: QCMDEXC & OVRPRTF anomaly

We have a program that uses the QCMDEXC API to run an OVRPRTF OVRSCOPE(*JOB) command. It has been in production for years. It works virtually all the time. We have a new employee and for her alone it "fails" about 5% of the time. I put the word fails in quotes because the QCMDEXC completes successfully, but the override doesn't actually happen.

We have joblogs and DSPOVR print-outs for when it works and when it doesn't, and they're identical. We have been unable to identify any pattern for when it doesn't work, and it cannot be replicated on demand.

Does anyone have any suggestions of what to check next?

TIA

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