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I'm messing about with some new files, building a small set with the Run
SQL Scripts plugin for IBM's ACS.

I've built a fairly standard set of SQL statements for dealing with a file,
starting with a CREATE, going through some LABELs, a few INSERTs and a
SELECT or two. I decided that the size of one field was too big so I ran
the following statement:
ALTER TABLE Employee_Details ALTER COLUMN Surname SET DATA TYPE CHAR(50);

I'm expecting that to change the length of Surname from 80 to 50. (This
example is a little contrived, for the sake of example, but this happens
for any ALTER TABLE or CREATE OR REPLACE statement where loss of data might
occur.)

If I run this in Run SQL Scripts, I get SQL State 57014, and "[SQL0952]
Processing of the SQL statement ended. Reason code 10." Looking at the job
log I find that I had message CPD32CC (Change to field ... may result in
data loss) followed by CPD32CC (Change of file ... cancelled). The second
level text for message CPD32CC says "The reply to inquiry message CPA32B2
specified that the change request be cancelled".

If I run the ALTER statement using STRSQL then the CPA32B2 inquiry message
pops up and I can type I to ignore the warning and complete the file change.

Is there a way to get the Run SQL Script tool to allow me to supply an
answer to the CPA32B2 message somehow? I don't really want to change the
default message reply for the whole machine.


-Paul.


P.S. I'm using ACS v1.1.6.1 and IBM i v7r1.

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