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Re: Change length of Source file

On 03 Aug 2012 11:57, CRPence wrote:
On 03 Aug 2012 10:44, Jon Paris wrote:
Anyone found a method of changing the record length of a Source
Physical other than copying it?

I have a bunch with the 92 length and would like to change them to
112 but neither CHGSRCPF or CHGPF will do it as far as I can tell.


ALTER TABLE and CHGPF SRCFILE(named) will enable that. The SQL is
simplest, since most SRC-PF will not have, were not created using,
DDS source; if they have source, probably best to modify the source
and use CHGPF.


Oops! I accidentally tested both the SQL ALTER TABLE and the CHGPF SRCFILE(named) on a SRCPF created from source... but on a file where I had forgotten to specify FILETYPE(*SRC); i.e. they both functioned only because the file operated against was created as FILETYPE(*DATA). :-(

Indeed, the SRC-PF attribute is not allowed to be changed by either request. I had forgotten about that restriction.

Regards, Chuck

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