Re: Update primary filre -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Update primary filre
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:54:29 -0400
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Douglas Handy wrote:

Well, couldn't that just have been handled the same way you rename a field
from an external format, even under RPG III?

In my experience with look-ahead fields in the 70's, you typically only
cared about a few fields at most and only list them under the ** I-spec, not
the whole record format. Why couldn't the field rename columns be used to
supply the new name?

That's a good point.

I can't guess at any other possible reasons for disallowing it. It's possible that "they" had the same thinking as I just did.

Follow-Ups:

Re: Update primary filre , Douglas Handy
Re: Update primary filre , M. Lazarus

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