Answer Posted / aa
there are several uses of OVRDBF command.. basically it is
used to temperaroly override some attributes of a physical
file to another...
main uses of OVRDBF includes..
1) Temp. sharing ODP
2) working on member other than frst member
3) setting pointer according to key value or through RRN
value
4) accesing object from any library which is not listed in
LIBL
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