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Hans,

Your suggestion is absolutely right for renaming Externally described file
field. Anyway Thanks, I will explore it by doing some more exercises on
this..and share with you guys.

Thanks,
Murugesh

-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Boldt [mailto:boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 5:05 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Sharing the same buffer ...


Paramasivam Murugesan , Gurgaon wrote:
> Hi all, In the following piece of code,  
>       Will the subfile SFLD and the File field STUNAM  share the same
> buffer?
> I tried in my pgm, and it is not.  In that case, my assumption is this
> EXTFLD keyword does not actually RENAME the file field. where as it
copies
> the attributes of the file field STUNAM.  
> 
>  FSTUDNT    IF   E           K DISK                    
>  D EDS           E DS                  EXTNAME (STUDNT)
>  D SFLD          E                     EXTFLD (STUNAM)
> 
> Can anyone tell me How this keyword is used for renaming.. or Is my
> perception wrong ?

If you want to rename an input field, code an input spec. Try coding:

--------------------------------------------------
IRECNAME
I              STUNAM                      SFLD
--------------------------------------------------

Cheers! Hans


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