Q. We have applications in native and S/36E. From a native menu, the STRS36- PRC command is executed and a S/36 procedure is run. Within the procedure a file is built with BLDFILE. The problem is the file is not being built in the current file library that is used within the native environment. Instead, the file is being created in the QS36F library. Is there any way to specify that the file should be built in the current file library used in the native environment instead of the QS36F library? Our users may be using different file libraries in the native environment.
A. See the documentation for the FLIB procedure. I think it's what you're looking for. If I remember well, FLIB has a syntax that's identical to SLIB. For example:
FLIB PRODLIB
This would change your file's library to PRODLIB for the duration of the procedure.
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