Re: Overriding a printer file - using TOFILE and other prams

["Charles Wilt" <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here's what I ended up doing:

ovrprtf file(QPQXPRTF) tofile(MYQUERY)
ovrprtf file(MYQUERY) usrdta(&locnbr)

But I'm curious as to why I couldn't do it in a singlele OVRPRTF.
> From the online help for OVRPRTF, it seemed as a single override would
have been enough...

"The Override with Printer File (OVRPRTF) command is used to (1)
override (replace) the file named in the program, (2) override
certain parameters of a file that are used by the program, or (3)
override the file named in the program and override certain
parameters of the file processed."

I guess "certain" doesn't include USRDTA.  Does anybody know what
"certain" does include?

"If a file named in the program is overridden, the name of that file
is specified in the FILE parameter and the name of the overriding
file (the file processed) is specified in the TOFILE parameter.  The
OVRPRTF command also specifies parameters to override values
contained in the file description of the overriding file."

Again, seems to imply that a single OVRPRTF should have been enough,
but it didn't work for me.

Charles


On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> All,
>
> In a CL should this work?
>
> ovrprtf file(QPQXPRTF) tofile(MYQUERY) usrdta(&locnbr)
>
> According to the online, it seems like using the TOFILE along with
> other params like USRDTA should.  But it doesn't appear to be working.
>
> Thanks!
> Charles