Re: LIBL behavior -- RPG400-L

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I think that as to the DSPF, a program will always find the first one in the LIBL - it may be possible these days to use the F-spec EXTFILE keyword to force the program to use a certain file in a certain library.

Now as to the data file, a program WILL find the first file in the library list, even if in a library lower than the one where the program came from - there's no binding of files that way, unless you have the EXTFILE keyword in use.

Something is going on instead of the typical usage, methinks.

Vern

On 12/24/2015 2:40 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

Until yesterday I believed I understood library list behavior.

Lets say we have a library list of:

LBR1
LBR2
LBR3
LBR4

and versions of PRGA with its display file reside in LBR1 and LIBR3
with some data files in both LBR2 and LBR4 and other data files in LBR4.

I get errors when I CALL LBR3/PRGA.

One error is that the program will not find data files in a library lower in the list than the *PGM's library.
Another is that the *PGM finds the *DSPF that is highest in the list, not the one in the same library.

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