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CRTOVL (Create Overlay) Command Description

CRTOVL Command syntax diagram

Purpose

The Create Overlay (CRTOVL) command creates an overlay resource from a physical file. The physical file contains the overlay resource information. The overlay resource information, can, for example, come from a S/370 host system and be in the Systems Application Architecture (SAA) format.

Required Parameters

OVL
Specifies the qualified name of the overlay being created.

The name of the overlay can be qualified by one of the following library values:

*CURLIB: The overlay is created in the current library for the job. If no library is specified as the current library for the job, the QGPL library is used.
library-name: Specify the name of the library where the overlay is created.

overlay-name: Specify the name of the overlay being created.

FILE
Specifies the qualified name of the file being used to create the overlay.

The name of the file can be qualified by one of the following library values:

*LIBL: All libraries in the job's library list are searched until the first match is found.
*CURLIB: The current library for the job is searched. If no library is specified as the current library for the job, the QGPL library is used.
library-name: Specify the name of the library to be searched.

file-name: Specify the name of the file to create the database file.

Optional Parameters

MBR
Specifies the name of the file member used to create the overlay.

*OVL: The name of the file member that contains the input data is the same as the overlay being created.

member-name: Specify the name of the file member that contains the overlay input data.

DATATYPE
Specifies the source type of the input file.

*AFPDS: The input is a pre-built *AFPDS file from a System/370.

*AFPU: The input is an *AFPU source file created with Advanced Functions Printing Facilities for OS/400.

REPLACE
Specifies whether the page definition is replaced.

*YES: The specified page definition is replaced.

*NO: No replacement occurs.

AUT
Specifies the authority given to users who do not have specific authority to the overlay, who are not on an authorization list, and whose user group has no specific authority to the overlay.

*LIBCRTAUT: The public authority for the overlay is taken from the value on the CRTAUT parameter of the target library (the library that is to contain the overlay). The public authority is determined when the overlay is created. If the CRTAUT value for the library changes after the overlay is created, the new value does not affect any existing objects.

*CHANGE: The user can perform all operations on the object except those limited to the owner or controlled by object existence authority and object management authority. The user can change and perform basic functions on the object. Change authority provides object operational authority and all data authority.

*ALL: The user can perform all operations except those limited to the owner or controlled by authorization list management authority. The user can control the object's existence, specify the security for the object, change the object, and perform basic functions on the object. The user also can change ownership of the overlay.

*USE: The user can perform basic operations on the overlay, such as running a program or reading a file. The user cannot change the overlay. *USE authority provides object operational authority, read authority, and execute authority.

*EXCLUDE: The user cannot access the overlay.

authorization-list-name: Specify the name of the authorization list used.

TEXT
Specifies the text that briefly describes the program and its function. More information on this parameter is in Commonly used parameters.

*MBRTXT: The text is taken from the file member being used to create the overlay.

The user can add or change text for a database source member by using either the Add Physical File Member (ADDPFM) command or the Change Physical File Member (CHGPFM) command. If the source file is an inline file or a device file, the text is blank.

*BLANK: No text is specified.

'description': Specify no more than 50 characters of text, enclosed in apostrophes.

Example for CRTOVL

CRTOVL  OVL(MYLIB/MYSIGNTR)  FILE(MYLIB/MYSIGNTR)
  MBR(MYSIGNTR)  AUT(*EXCLUDE)
  TEXT('representation of my signature')

This command creates the overlay MYSIGNTR into MYLIB. File name MYSIGNTR in library MYLIB with member MYSIGNTR, is used as input. Specifying *EXCLUDE does not allow any other user access to the signature. The text describes the overlay.

Error messages for CRTOVL

*ESCAPE Messages

CPF2283
Authorization list &1 does not exist.
CPF8056
File &1 in &2 not a physical file.
CPF88C1
Printer resource type &1 &2 was not created in library &3.
CPF88C2
Data type parameter value of *AFPU incorrect for &1 command.
CPF9809
Library &1 cannot be accessed.
CPF9810
Library &1 not found.
CPF9812
File &1 in library &2 not found.
CPF9822
Not authorized to file &1 in library &2.
CPF9845
Error occurred while opening file &1.
CPF9846
Error while processing file &1 in library &2.
CPF9847
Error occurred while closing file &1 in library &2.
CPF9870
Object &2 type *&5 already exists in library &3.

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Midrange Computing RE: convert jpg to AS400 overlay (ovl)


 


Print document using the AFP printer driver  (see Access installation for
drivers).  Be sure to specify that you are creating an overlay or page
segment.  See printer properties.

FTP as binary image to shell file create at Max rcdlen

CRTOVL or CRTPAGSEG whichever is applicable in your case.

Sounds simple...sometimes trial and error before you get it right.

Regards,
Russell Conerly
Tupelo, MS

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jeff Young
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 3:46 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: convert jpg to AS400 overlay (ovl)

You most likely had installed the IBM AFP 300 print driver and used that as
your printer to create the overlay, then uploaded it to the AS/400.
 
Jeff Young 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Willie J. Moore <WJMoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 8, 2007 4:16:37 PM
Subject: RE: convert jpg to AS400 overlay (ovl)


How do you get it the the as400?
Thanks,
Willie..

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Michael_Schutte@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 11:26 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: convert jpg to AS400 overlay (ovl)


I could be wrong, but if I'm remembering correctly, I just opened the image
in Paint or Photoshop, printed the image to file as an overlay.


Michael Schutte
Bob Evans Farms, Inc.

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rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/08/2007 02:24:09 PM:


Insert the jpg image into a word doc.  Then turn the word doc into an
overlay.

hth,

Frank
             "Willie J. Moore"
             <WJMoore@finewire
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