Re: Operation Extender N is not allowed if the file is not a disk

[Bruce <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Krish.

Yea, I'd like to do that too.  My fear is I won't (can't) find them all 
easily.  I can't simply search on chain(n) with good results. Maybe I 
could do a compile to qtemp to catch bad source and go from there.

I'd *really* like to 'fix' the programmers who did it.  :-)  In a nice 
way, of course.

I was thinking about the possibility of lowering the severity of the 
error (RNF5252).  I did a wrkmsgf *all, then 12'd all of them searching 
for RNF, and I didn't get any hits.  Are the RNF errors in some msgf 
that I can't see?  Could I even lower the severity of a single RPGLE 
compile error?

just thinking...
Thanks,
Bruce

Krish Thirumalai wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> We had the same issue in V5R3, but we decided to fix the code instead
> of finding a work around for this.
>
> Krish
>
>
>
> > From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> > Date: 01/25/05 17:42:34
> > To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Operation Extender N is not allowed if the file is not a disk
> >
> > We've had programmers get too aggressive with the no lock extender on
> > subfiles in the past.  Up until v5r3m0 these progs have always compiled,
> > but now we seem to be getting an RNF5252 "Operation Extender N is not
> > allowed if the file is not a disk file."  It is a level 20 error so we
> > could ignore it and move on, but my question is why start telling me now?
> >
> > Honestly, I don't know if we've been getting these errors all along or
> > not.  If we have, they haven't been severity 20 as all our crt commands
> > specify 10 (which I think is the default).
> >
> > I know the best thing to do is remove the unneeded (n), but other than
> > than any quick workarounds?
> >
> > tia,
> > Bruce in AR
> >
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