Re: How to get called program to write records to physical file member.

what is the OVRSCOPE() on your OVRDBF?


Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From: Bryce Martin <BMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 04/28/2010 01:11 PM
Subject: How to get called program to write records to physical
file member.
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So here's the situation, and my lack of understanding of how things work
at the call stack level I think is the problem.

I have a program, in that program I use QCMDEXC to create a new member on
a physical file. Then I do an OVRDBF to that member. I then call another

program - yes program, not a module or service program, to write some
records to that file. Then I call a procedure from a module that is bound

to my program to do some stuff and read from that member I just created
and populated. The problem is that the called program isn't writing to
the member I created, its writing to the *FIRST member of the file. My
bound procedure is looking in the member I did the OVRDBF to but its
blank.

Can someone explain why the called program doesn't retain the OVRDBF to
the proper member and what I can do to fix this? Is the only way to do it

by passing the member name to the called program so it can do its own
OVRDBF?

Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
570-546-4777
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