This month I've been mainly working with Turnover SCM for iSeries.

"Turnover is the premier Change Management Tool for IBMi Power Systems. The windows Client integrates nicely with RDi and WDSC Development tools and it neatly handles RPG, CL. SQL, DDS, etc etc for controlled code development for all size IBMi shops." No, I dont work for the Turnover mother company - Soft Landings - I just like the product itself. It's more comprehensive and simpler to use than its closest competitors (Aldon and PTS Implementor). IMHO of course.

Anyway, as usual, I digress. I read an interesting little hint hidden away deep in some forum. It's worth recording here so I can find it if I ever need it in the future.

If promotion of a Logical File fails to add a member the FORM will fail and go into RECOVER mode.

Sometimes we dont want that. We want the form to complete so we can tweak the access path manually. By default, if a member cannot be added the form should recover. However, years ago it did not work this way and some customers objected to the change. So they added a data area that allows us to override the behavior. The name of the data area is TMBRRCV type *CHAR length 1. If this data area exists with a value of 'N' Turnover will ignore the error, in all other cases it would recover.

Seems like a neat tip. Dont know if I'll ever need it... but if I do... I can find it here.

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