Re: Recompiling an RPG pgm

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 fkany@averittexpress.com wrote:
>
> If an RPG III pgm is not recompiled after FILE_A has been recompiled, will
> the program bomb when called?  The program only does
> WRITE operations to FILE_A.

There are a number of factors that affect this:

   1) Is the file externally described in the programs in question?
         or are they program-described.   Program described files do
         not get level-check errors, as long as the keys haven't
         changed.

   2) Is the file created with LVLCHK(*YES) on the CRTPF/CRTLF/OVRDBF
         command?   (It is *YES by default)  If this is set to
         LVLCHK(*NO) then the system will not check to see if the
         record format has been changed.

   3) If externally described, and LVLCHK(*YES)  did you change anything
         that would change the record length?  or change the
         length/type/name of any field?   or change the keys?  If you
         changed any of these things, then the "record level identifier"
         will be different, and the program will see that and generate
         a "level check" error.

>
> I recompiled a file but forgot to recompile 2 RPG III programs that WRITE
> to it.  The programs that weren't recompiled still run, but it appears
> no records are being WRITTEN to the file.
>

That's strange.   They're not crashing, but just refusing to write the
records?  Is it possible that they're seeing a different copy of the file?
Maybe in a different library?