Re: Merging Files

Dave,

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Dave Schnee wrote:

  Jerry:

  If you need that old data and the ONLY problem is a missing field, you can
  use the CHGPF command referencing the current and changed DDS for the file
  and thereby add the new field without losing any of your old data.  Then,
  if you wish, you can recreate this multi-year LF and/or use the old file
  with you new programs that expect all the fields.

  Dave Schnee,

  Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

  --------------  Jerry Adams wrote  ----------------

  date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:27:25 -0500
  from: Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  subject: Re: Merging Files

  Vern,

  I set up a quick test LF.  Physicals in multiple libraries.  Worked
  fine.  Even processed a document to add to the current year's history
  and it showed up in the multi-format LF.  The only problem was a much

older PF (2001) that is missing a field common to all of the other PFs I think I can live without flashbacks to 2001! So life is (temporarily)

  good.

  Thanks.

      * Jerry C. Adams
  *IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
  B&W Wholesale Distributors, Inc.* *