Re: Journal Changes

[Jeffrey Young <cooljeff913@xxxxxxxxx>]

Please note that this will not work if the attributes of a field were changed 
from character to packed or vice versa.
I think that there are some other conditions also, but I do not remember them 
off the top of my head.


Ken Sims <mdrg5003@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Joel -

>This is the procedure I used last night to recreate a physical file so it
>could pick up new field text descriptions:
>
>1. Ended journalling on the physical file (ENDJRNPF)
>2. Copied the Data in the physical file to a tempoary file
>3. Deleted the physical file
>4. Recreated the physical file without and DB changes
>5. Copied the data back into it
>6. Started journalling (STRJRNPF) the phsical file again using the same
>Journal Receiver

You can replace all of those steps with CHGPF specifying the source file 
and member for the changed DDS.

Ken
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