RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: OVRDBF does not work

When processing the override in your RPGLE program make sure you are using USROPN? Otherwise the file was opened before the override was applied.

There are better ways to do overrides in RPGLE. Keyword EXTFILE lets you specify a library / file combination that can be a program variable. The override is completely contained in your application. I know this works on 7.1 or higher.

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From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Craig Richards
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 10:50 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: OVRDBF does not work

I've always used OVRSCOPE(*JOB) myself.

Also, it seems to me that you can't always see overrides in other jobs.
This is because I don't think that there is a way to specify the LVL parameter of DSPOVR when looking from the WRKJOB or DSPJOB menu.

I have some batch jobs that override the WaitRcd parameter.
I know that the override is there because if I engineer a record lock I can see that the wait time has been reduced by my override.

But when looking at the running batch job and taking option 15 I can't see the override.

For my own peace of mind I think I issued a DSPOVR from within the job ( in some one-off test code ) just to prove that the override was there.

regards,
Craig

On 27 June 2018 at 16:36, <dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 06/27/2018
11:30:43
AM:

I'm having a strange problem using OVRDBF.

I've had good results by using both of the following parms in
the override.


OVRSCOPE(*JOB) OPNSCOPE(*JOB)


Sincerely,

Dave Clark
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