RE: Renaming Fields in the D specs

The example that Mark sent is close to correct, he omitted the "E" in
column 22 (I think?) so the example should be like this:


> D xternalDS  E DS                           extName(FileName)
> D  field1    E                              extFLD(newField1)
> D   field2   E                              extFLD(newField2)


FYI, this is #3 dumb syntax in RPG IV on my list of top ten dumb syntax
issues in RPG IV. Why do we need an "E" if the EXTFLD() keyword is
there?

Bob Cozzi
cozzi@rpgiv.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
On
> Behalf Of Mark McCarty
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 3:47 PM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Renaming Fields in the D specs
>
>
> Troy,
>
> Use an external ds to identify the file, then use EXTFLD to redefine
the
> desired fields.
>
> D xternalDS  E DS                   extName(FileName: {optional format
> name})
> D  field1                                  extFLD(newField1)
> D   field2                                 extFLD(newField2)
>
> Hope this is what you need....
>
> MarK A McCarty
> AS/400 Programmer/Developer
> Navy Exchange Service Command
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>                     12/04/2001 04:05
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> Hello all
>
> Could some please give me a code snippet of how to rename 2 fields out
of a
> record format using
> the D specs instead of the I specs.  Thanks a bunch
>
> Thanks
> Troy Dills
> Julius Blum Inc.
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>
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