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

[Jim Essinger <dilbernator@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bryce,

I have been caught many times by the OVER RIDE SCOPE and the ILE
environment.  If you just take the default (*ACTGRPDFN) over ride scope, and
the programs are executed in different activation groups, your over ride
will not be in affect.

Could this be your issue?

Jim

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Bryce Martin <BMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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