Re: Data Ara

As someone else mentioned, write a CL program that does a RTVDTAARA.

A library name is a valid parameter on V4R5 and V3R2.
Why make this hard?

"Mark A. Manske" wrote:
>
> I do not know of a any way to specify the library - however;
> "can" you do something along these lines,
>
> create a dup copy of the data area into qtemp,
> then retrieve it from there.
>
> This of course would be "messy" if you need to update
> the data area since you would not be able to lock it.
>
> Just curious, why can you not do a addlible to say *end
> within the program before accessing the data area -
> or is that something the user/security officer will not allow,
> there are ways around that too,
>
> Or if the issues cannot be overcome, then I simply go back to
> the people requesting the change to tell them it is not
> currently possible under the current set-up conditions that
> exist on their system, once those change, it then can be done,
> and leave the managers to battle it out.
>
> HTH
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of Raul A Jager
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 10:26 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Data Ara
>
> I need to read a DATA ARA , but the library where the DATA ARA is
> located is not in the "libriry list".
>
> I can not change the library list.  Is there something similar to the
> file's "extname" that aplyes to DATA ARA?
>
> Thanks, Raul
>
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