RE: Weird issue with a display file

James,

Want to be sure that I understand. When you try to run the program in
question, are you getting a CPF4101 error (file not found)? Even though the
file exists in one of the libraries in the library list?

DSPPGMREF, by the way, does *not* indicate which library the RPG program is
going to use to retrieve the file; only the library the file (database or
display) was in when the program was compiled. I don't have a CMS use I use
project libraries; even the production copies of the programs usually show
the object reference as something like "PROJ0001/DISPLAY", but they still
find DISPLAY in the PRODLIB (PROJ0001 having been deleted long ago in this
example).

Or am I still not comprehending correctly?

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of James Lampert
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:53 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Weird issue with a display file

Jerry C. Adams wrote:

Never done it with display files, but frequently with database files.

Uh, I don't think I made the problem clear:

RPG is library-qualifying the reference to the display file, when
qualification is neither necessary nor desirable. And since the program
in question was compiled on our V4R4 box (with dummy service programs),
using the V4R2 compiler, it's doing it at a level where I couldn't
(without an OVRDBF) qualify a database file if I wanted to.

It makes no sense.

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