Re: OVRDBF from RPG

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Check the levels at which these over rides are to take place...Somewhere
around v3r1/2 they changed them and we had to do some really quick water
treading...the easest option is to do a prompt off the command line for
ovrdbf and look for the 2 scope fields...the easiest is to change them to
(*JOB)....

It was a big surprise to us!

Don in DC

On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Martinus Ivan wrote:

> Hi All,
> I'm writing a small test program to override a file within RPG like this :
> 
> DArray           S             31A              DIM(1) CTDATA
> DCmd            S             31A
> DLen             S             15     5
> 
> C                  MOVEA           Array(1)        Cmd
> C                  Z-ADD             31                 Len
> C                  CALL              'QCMDEXC'
> C                  PARM                                 Cmd
> C             PARM                                 Len
> C                  SETON
> LR
> **
> OVRDBF FILE(myfile) MBR(member2)
> 
> The program compile without error (crtbndprg). And run without any error
> message too.
> After I call the program from command line and DSPOVR it shows "No
> override". 
> Why no override happen ?
> Hope some explanation (I'm on V3R2).  
> Thank you
> 

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