Re: Renaming Fields in RPG400 -- RPG400-L

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Hi Jonathan -

On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:15:38 +0100, Jonathan Mason
<Jonathan.Mason@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am currently modifying an RPG400 program and need to read an external file that, unfortunately, has field names longer than six characters. I have tried renaming the fields in the I-specs, but get compiler error QRG4052 ("FIELD NAME EXCEEDS SIX CHARACTERS IN LENGTH AND IS NOT RENAMED") as soon as the compiler tries to bring in the external definitions:

I have searched the net and the archives to no avail, all the examples I find are either ILE or using field names of six or less characters. I know I can convert the source to RPG IV or call an RPG IV program to do the read, but was wondering if there is a way round this.

Something is not right because I have this same situation and I don't
have any problem renaming the fields to shorter names in the I-specs.

Ken
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