Re: Renaming one field in a file, without affecting anything else -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Renaming one field in a file, without affecting anything else
From: Gary Thompson <GThompson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 15:45:46 -0600
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James wrote:

Is there a way, without having to I-spec an entire file, or change the
prefix (which could break an awful lot of code), to rename the one
offending field?

Two things come to mind:
1) create an LF, re-name the field and replace
use of the file in question with the new LF

2) create a DS with EXTNAME(the file in question)
and EXTFLD(the field in question) in addition
to PREFIX

btw, I have never done 2) with all three....

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