FW: changing field descriptions

I waited until this morning to see if there was some kind of nightly function 
that updated the field descriptions, there wasn't.  I went into services this 
morning and did 'retrieve field descriptions' and that worked.  Thanks for all 
your help. - Jo Ann
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From: dshaw@spartan.com
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: changing field descriptions
Date: Saturday, February 05, 2000 3:12AM

Jo Ann,

We had EZVIEW at my previous job.  It has a feature that stores the field
definitions in files in its library, rather than retrieving them from the
file
description every time.  It performs slightly better with the feature
turned on.
The main problem with it is that it doesn't always recognize when it
needs to
refresh the retrieved descriptions for a particular file.  There's an
option
somewhere to manually trigger a refresh - maybe in the Services menu
(F13?).  I
wish I could remember better, but I always had to hunt for it when I
needed it,
and now I haven't used the product in more than 6 months.

Dave Shaw

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From: burelle@bigy.com [mailto:burelle@bigy.com]

Dan;

I changed my dds source from COLHDG('FILLER 5') to COLHDG('EXPIRATION
DATE'
'NEEDED'), prompted the CHGPF command, made sure my sourcefile and
library where
in SRCFILE, made DLTDEPLF *NO.  It took awhile, said it changed, but when
I
looked at if with EZVIEW I saw the same description, but when I did a
QUERY over
that file I saw the new description.

So, THANK YOU 8-))).  I also did a dspffd and saw the new description,
any idea
where EZVIEW gets it field descriptions?
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