Re: OVRDBF WAITRCD(*IMMED) challenges in ILE

Peter,
Last Thursday when I first coded the teststuff logic, I was getting a hard halt at the DSPLY statement. Thought it was being picky about more than 52 characters (perhaps not recognizing the varying length?), and found that substringing it to 52 seemed to get me past that.
I just stripped out that extra code, and I'm not getting a halt now, so maybe I was making up stuff last week.
Thanks.
-- Michael
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Dow
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 11:34 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: OVRDBF WAITRCD(*IMMED) challenges in ILE

Hi Michael,

Luis is right, you need to do the override before you open the file.
Only the open looks at the override statement.

I'm also curious about this code:

0056.00 if %len(SOlocks_ds.MessageText) > 52;
0057.00 DisplayThis = %subst(SOlocks_ds.MessageText : 1 : 52);
0058.00 else;
0059.00 DisplayThis = SOlocks_ds.MessageText;
0060.00 endif;

Because DisplayThis is defined as 52a, all you really need is this:

0059.00 DisplayThis = SOlocks_ds.MessageText;

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