RE: changing field descriptions

["Shaw, David" <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

I believe that internally CHGPF does the equivalent of a CPYF FMTOPT(*MAP
*DROP).  It doesn't have any provision for cases like yours which need
FMTOPT(*NOCHK).

Dave Shaw

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Langston [mailto:jlangston@conexfreight.com]

I had tried that exact thing not but a day ago, with failure.  I'm on
V3R7M0 and wanted to add DDS to a "flat" S/36 file that had
been overlooked.

So I created the DDS in a test library, copied a few of the records
into it with FMTOPT(*NOCHK) and tested the integrity of my DDS
file, which was fine.  Then I copied the DDS source into the production
library, and did a ALCOBJ *EXCL on the file I wanted to change.

Then I issued the CHGPF, prompted it, and gave it the source code
file and member, and hit enter.  And received an error.  Unfortunately,
I don't remember what the error was, but I seem to recall it had something
to do with not being able to map from a string field to a numeric field.

So I then copied from my production file to my test file with *NOCHK,
did a DLTF on my production file, and did a CPYF from my test
file to my production file.
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