I have some old OCL pgms that have a statement "FILE NAME-TRANS,LABEL-B-TRANS,EXTEND-1000"
I'd like to replace these with CL's with an OVRDBF statement, But in CL. I can't use the "extend" and I can't affords to get a file full error
Is there a way to do this in CL?
If you check the Change Physical File (CHGPF) command (not OVRDBF) You'll see these options:
Member size: SIZE Initial number of records . . *SAME Increment number of records . *SAME Maximum increments . . . . . . *SAME
I believe this may be what you're looking for. But I haven't use OCL i YEARS and when I did it was very little. The value *NOMAX can be used for initial number of records. Whether you use it or not is up to your shop rules.
Thanks so much. I tried it, but , got the message that I was afraid of since the file is in constant use.
It looks like I'll have to find somewhere in the nightly processing that I might get a lock on it.
The only problem is that the original programmer loved to SBM all the jobs, she hated any interactive.
"File TTRANS in library QS36F in use"
As I get the luxury of time(haha) I'm trying to convert all the old OCL's and RPT36's to CLP and RPGLE
Fun
Thanks again
Stu