RE: Weird issue with a display file

James,

Is the RPG qualifying the library as part of a USROPN? I've done this if I don't find the file the library list. If it isn't in the library list I hardcode the library to the production library it is supposed to reside in.

Gary Monnier

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Lampert
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 10:11 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Weird issue with a display file

I've got a program that uses a display file. And I just discovered that it's looking for its display file in a specific library, ignores the *LIBL, and complains if the library where it was looking for the display file doesn't exist.

And doing a DSPPGMREF on another program with a display file, I discovered that it's not the only one that looks for its DSPF in a specific library.

The problem with this specific case is that when installed on the customer box, the program looks for the display file in the wrong library.

I've been writing RPG programs for over 17 years, and I've never noticed this before. I don't recall database files being implicitly qualified to wherever the compiler found them at compile time. This would seem to make it difficult to move programs that use display files.

Can somebody shed some light on this?

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JHHL
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