Re: RPG II Program Reference Issue

["Raul A. Jager W." <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you need to compile the program with the name to be used, not 
rename it.

Jerry C. Adams wrote:

> Let's board the Wayback machine for a trip down RPG II (not my choice, just
> my job).
>
>
>
> I'm doing maintenance on a couple of programs which have the same name in
> separate libraries.  I copied the source for one into my project library as
> "GL0211" and the other one as "GL0211OE" and compiled each.  Both programs
> use a workstation file named GL0211FM (FGL0211FMCP  F    1920
> WORKSTN) there are no continuation lines in the F-specs.
>
>
>
> When I push them to my test libraries I use the CRTDUPOBJ command such that
> GL0211OE gets created as GL0211 (no CMS here).  The CL to do the push is:
>
>
>
> RMVM       FILE(&OE/QS36SRC) MBR(GL0211)            
>
> CPYSRCF    FROMFILE(PROJ0055/QS36SRC) +             
>
>             TOFILE(&OE/QS36SRC) FROMMBR(GL0211OE) +
>
>             TOMBR(GL0211)                          
>
> DLTPGM     PGM(&OE/GL0211)                          
>
> CRTDUPOBJ  OBJ(GL0211OE) FROMLIB(PROJ0055) +        
>
>             OBJTYPE(*PGM) TOLIB(&OE) NEWOBJ(GL0211)
>
>             
>
> where &OE represents the library (in this case a test library).
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>
> When I tried to test this program, though, I got an error:
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>
>
> RPG9027 Options (  23F)              
>
> Attempt to open file GL0211FM failed.
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> A higher-level message is:
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> File GL0211OEFM in library *LIBL not found
>
>
>
> Notice the name.  I did a DSPPGMREF on the program in both the project and
> test libraries (after the push), but they both show:
>
>
>
> Object  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :     GL0211FM  
>
>  Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :       *LIBL   
>
>  Object type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :       *FILE   
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>  File name in program  . . . . . . . . . . :       GL0211FM
>
>  File usage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :       Input   
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>                                                    Output  
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>                                                    
>
> Does anyone have the faintest idea why the program is trying to find
> GL0211OEFM instead of the GL0211FM as defined in the program?  Other than
> possibly using an OVRDSPF in the OCL procedure, which may or may not work,
> is there any way to overcome this issue?  I did think about putting the
> second program (GL0211OE) into a separate project library and using its real
> name.  Is that my only option?  More than anything I'm trying to understand
> why the program is looking for a file that it does not even reference (see
> above).
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Jerry C. Adams
>
> IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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