Open considerations when using *LIBL with a DDM file

 

There are certain considerations when you open DDM files and specify *LIBL for the library.

• The system first searches the library list for a local database file with the specified member. Even if the local database file is located in a library later in your library list than the library containing the DDM file, the local database file containing the specified member is used.

  Therefore, if you want to open a DDM file using *LIBL, ensure that there are no local database files with the same name and that no local database files contain the specified member anywhere in your library list.

• If the system does not locate a local database file with the specified member, it searches the library list for the first file that has the specified name. If this file is not of the proper type, or if it does not contain the specified member, an open failure occurs.

  Therefore, if you want to open a DDM file using *LIBL, ensure that the DDM file you want to open is the first file in your library list with the specified name.

 

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Opened files