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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Work Management and Messaging
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 28, 2026

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Provide an API that returns current override information for all session/job overrides

The current API to retrieve an override information only returns the file to which a file label has been overridden. We need a way to determine (A) what files have been overridden and (B) what the override scope is for those files. Today the only way to get that list is to use a DSPOVR CL command and parse the SPOOLED file. We are asking for a QDMLOVRF API (or similarly named) that spits out the list file overrides to a target buffer (which of course could be a pointer to a user space, but should not be a User Space name) so we can process it accordingly. 

Clearly this information is available as both DSPOVR and DLTOVR command have access to a FILE(*ALL) option. 

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Mar 17, 2026

    The SYSTOOLS.OVERRIDE_INFO view simply references the SYSTOOLS.OVERRIDE_INFO table function.

    As with all objects in SYSTOOLS, you can retrieve the source for the SYSTOOLS.OVERRIDE_INFO table function and use that as a basis for a similar table function e.g. JOB_OVERRIDE_INFO with a job name as parameter and running "DSPJOB JOB(<job>) OUTPUT(*PRINT) OPTION(*FILOVR)" instead of "DSPOVR OUTPUT(*PRINT)" as SYSTOOLS.OVERRIDE_INFO does.

    The printed output from the two commands are quite similar, so it shouldn't be difficult to adapt the code from SYSTOOLS.OVERRIDE_INFO table function to interpret the printed output from the DSPJOB command instead of the printed output from the DSPOVR command.

    Having created your JOB_OVERRIDE_INFO table function, you can combine this with the QSYS2.ACTIVE_JOB_INFO table function to retrieve override information from all active jobs.

    HTH.

    Best regards,
    Christian, CEAC member

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  • Guest
    Mar 10, 2026

    Please reconsider. There is currently no way to view certain bits of Overrides. For example, if you use the DSPJOB OPTION(*FILOVR) you can get the overrides for any job, but even if overrides exist in that job, if they are scoped to *ACTGRPDFN such as *NEW, and you are down the call stack, those overrides do not appear in the results. So basically there is currently no way to view certain overrides using any method--even the least capable method of using DSPOVR, which happens to be the choice they used for the OVERRIDE_INFO so it too isn't very useful. 

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  • Guest
    Mar 9, 2026
    SELECT * FROM SYSTOOLS.OVERRIDE_INFO does not produce a spooled file. You can direct the output to a database file and then read the records from the file programmatically.

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  • Guest
    Mar 8, 2026

    LOL, you're not serious? a DSPOVR OUTPUT(*PRINT) and then read/parse the SPOOLED file? That's a TAATOOL approach, not a system level interface.

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  • Guest
    Mar 2, 2026
    There is an SQL service available in 7.5 and later releases that return the same information as the DSPOVR command.
    SYSTOOLS.OVERRIDE_INFO
    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5.0?topic=services-override-info-view

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