RE: OVRDBF

[David FOXWELL <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think I have misunderstood the command all these years. The help in French says Substituer un fichier BD which means replace a database file. On the IBM site I read Override with Data Base File. There's no WITH in the french translation.

Thus, it is easy to understand what is happening in English, but in French, I understand :

OVRDBF     FILE(myfile) TOFILE(mylib/myfile) /* replace the DBF named myfile with the tofile. */
OVRPRTF    FILE(myfile) SPLFNAME(splname)    /* replace the PRTF named myfile with the tofile. */



> -----Message d'origine-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Dennis Lovelady
> Envoyé : mercredi 31 mars 2010 13:52
> À : 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Objet : RE: OVRDBF
>
> > OVRDBF     FILE(myfile) TOFILE(mylib/myfile)
> > OVRPRTF    FILE(myfile) SPLFNAME(splname)
> >
> > After the ovrprtf, the ovrdbf is no longer effective. So 
> what do you 
> > do if you have a dbf and a prtf with the same name?
>
> Ideally you would pick one and rename it system-wide.  You 
> may have some success with SECURE(*YES) on the second 
> parameter, but this is not something I have tried.
>
> Short of that, remember that the FILE() parameter refers to 
> the filename identified in the source.  So you could change 
> your filename in the RPG source (e.g. to myprt) and then do 
> OVRPRTF FILE(myprt) SPLFNAME(splfname).
> The difficulty will be in getting the RPG to compile if the 
> file is externally described, but you would be able to 
> compile with the correct override in place.
>
> Rename it, no matter how many places it's used; it's not 
> worth the fight or confusion.  And whoever is in charge 
> should implement a standard naming convention so that such 
> things don't happen going forward.
>
> Dennis Lovelady
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
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