Re: authority question....

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

WRKOBJ seems to only show you the one you have access to.

We had a person who had two copies of the file in their library list. They 
called a program to use it and it bombed.  They did a WRKOBJ and used 
option 5 and it looked ok.  I went over to their session and instead of 
using WRKOBJ I used DSPOBJD *libl/object and it bombed.  That's how we 
found out they had two in their library list.

Instead of implicitly opening the program in your program (if you are 
using RPG) open it explicitly.  Then check the status code on the open. If 
it fails because you do not have authority, then call an api to list this 
object in your library list.  Process that user space to find the desired 
object.  Then change the variable used in the EXTFILE keyword to point to 
this new file.  Who needs CL and overrides for this?

Rob Berendt
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