Re: Renaming one field in a file, without affecting anything else

I'm wondering if for that one field you could just fully qualify it in the
program so you would not have to change any I specs? I don't know how many
places it is used but no matter what you do you will have to touch the
code. Sorry if I'm way off base here.

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Doug Belcher
St Louis, MO
314-766-4461

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:33 PM, sjl <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

James wrote:

I'm running into a field name collision between two files (one of which
already has a PREFIX clause that, ironically, while preventing a whole
bunch of collisions, is the cause of this one).

Is there a way, without having to I-spec an entire file, or change the
prefix (which could break an awful lot of code), to rename the one
offending field?

It's on a V6 customer box, so all the "slick new stuff" I try to avoid
in core code is available.

then Joe wrote:
Yup. I-spec for the format name, then use a second I-spec to specify
the internal and external names of the colliding field.


Joe -

Technically, the 2nd I spec (used to specify the internal and external
fields) is known by the SEU and WDSC prompters as a J spec.

To prompt it,

1) In SEU use IPJX in the sequence number field to insert and prompt it, or
2) In WDSC insert a blank line then type PJX in the sequence number column
to get the prompt screen.

Regards,
sjl