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Ther IS an alternative. I don't know if it's prettier, but at least it's an alternative that I have selected in situations with two almost identical record fields in different files (e.g. FILE1 and OLDFILE1): Define a DS with all the records fields (easy: 'I E DS' in RPG/400), and keep moving all the records to the DS and back when you need'm. But of cause: The right solution is to START with 4-character fields in the field reference file. ------------------------------------------------------------ Henrik Krebs IT Consultant (IBM AS/400) Web: http://www.hkrebs.dk/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- > Fra: Stone, Brad V (TC) <bvstone@taylorcorp.com> > Til: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' > Emne: RE: Same field names > Dato: 4. maj 1999 18:12 > > Prefix the fields with unique 2 or 3 character prefixes in the files > themselves. I did a short stint at a company that did what your company did > and it was pure hell. They didn't even prefix in the RPG programs. > > So, when they were reading through one file, and chained to another, they > would have to save the key values of the previous file and chain back to > "reposition" after they were done. It was a nightmare. > > Bradley V. Stone > Taylor Corporation - OASIS Programmer/Analyst > bvstone@taylorcorp.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rob Berendt [SMTP:rob@dekko.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 9:46 AM > > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > > Subject: Same field names > > > > Not to start a holy war, but here goes... > > > > Our accounting package uses the same field names in all of their files. > > For example in the > > files EMPNAM, EMPJOB, etc, the employee number field is EMPLY. Prior to > > RPG ILE, this was +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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