Re: Level Check Problem

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Scott.  I don't know why OVRDBF would not work on a USROPN
file.

Jerry, are you perhaps issuing the OVRDBF on the file name using it's disk
name instead on the name used in the program?

Not that _I_ have ever done anything like that.

Or could it be an activation group issue?


On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi Jerry,
>
> > I know that I can use OVRDBF with LVLCHK(*NO), but that doesn't work
> > for USROPN tables.
>
> Why wouldn't it work for USROPN tables?!  I don't really like the idea
> of using LVLCHK(*NO), but it _should_ work with USROPN...  I don't see
> why it wouldn't!
>
> Yes, it's compiled into the program, you can't change it at run-time.
>
>
> > The only alternatives that I have come up with are to either:
> >
> > 1.      Define each table in the program and create three subprocedures
> >
> > 2.      Rebuild the tables with the same record format name.
>
> A few more options:
>
> 3. Use program-described access to the file.  (potentially with an
> externally-defined data structure.)
>
> 4. Use SQL instead of native I/O
>
> 5. Use the _Ropen(), _Rread(), etc APIs instead of native I/O.
>
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