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Re: COPY REPLACING Issue

You need to look at COPY DDR or COPY DDSR - they are designed for this exact purpose.


Jon P.


On May 18, 2023, at 11:20 AM, Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am trying to work with an older DDS database and a field in the file has a # character in the field name. The COBOL compiler doesn't like that much. I've been trying to use the COPY REPLACING option, but every time I set up the "from" field name, it chokes because of the # character. Anyone have an example of how to get this to work?

Rich Loeber
Kisco Systems LLC
https://www.kisco.com
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