Re: File opens in RPG III

On 17 Sep 2013 11:50, Dave Shaw wrote:

At the breakpoint, do a DSPJOB. Look at open files - your production
file is probably open. Look at active job overrides, to see if
something is slipping in somehow. Check the program stack, just to
be sure the right programs are running. DSPJOB (or WRKJOB) is as
valuable for debugging this sort of problem as STRDBG, in my world.
<<SNIP>>

That was along the lines of what I was thinking when I mentioned using a job trace. A trace might show that the program was doing a shared open; no overrides required to access the wrong data. If the file with the same name were already opened /shared/ [member attribute SHARE(*YES); need not be from an OVRDBF], irrespective the position in the library list, then the program would be effecting a shared-open instead of a full-open and its I\O would be against the first file opened with that name.