Re: Weird issue with a display file

I just a DSPPGMREF on a program on our system that uses a display file and hasn't been recompiled in years. The display file in the program shows a specific library, but that library doesn't exist on our system anymore. We have never had a problem with this program using the display file in the library list.

-----Original Message----- From: James Lampert
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:11 PM
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