Natural for OpenVMS Version 6.3.12 for OpenVMS
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OPF - Overwriting of Protected Fields by Helproutines

This Natural profile and session parameter specifies whether the content of a write-protected field (attribute definition AD=P) can be overwritten by a helproutine assigned to the field.

Possible settings ON A helproutine assigned to a field can overwrite the field's content, even if the field is write-protected.
OFF Helproutines cannot overwrite the contents of write-protected fields.
Default setting ON  
Dynamic specification yes  
Specification within session yes  
Applicable statements SET GLOBALS  
Applicable command GLOBALS  
Application programming interface USR1005N See SYSEXT - Natural Application Programming Interfaces in the Utilities documentation.

Notes:

  1. The OPF profile parameter only applies to the field for which a helproutine is invoked; it does not affect parameters explicitly passed to the helproutine. This means that the OPF profile parameter takes no effect if the field for which help is invoked is also explicitly specified as a parameter to be passed to the helproutine.
  2. In addition, in reporting mode you can change the OPF setting using the statement SET GLOBALS.
  3. Within a Natural session, the profile parameter OPF can be overridden by the session parameter OPF.

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