RE: Re : CHGPF Question

["Kahn, David" <KAHN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Venu Gopal (Venu_Gopal@countrywide.com) wrote:

>At present we are doing a work that involves expanding a field in a file
>and changing all the affected programs. The field is somewhere in the
>middle of the file (not at the end)...
>
>Programs that use the file in input mode and never reference to this field
>also are recompiled. I opposed this idea but invain!!!! But now we are
>almost home!!!!

 Venu,

You have no choice but to recompile all the programs that reference any
field that follows the expanded field in the record, otherwise the input
buffer would not align correctly with the program's definition of it.
It's only when a new field is added at the end of a record that it's
safe not to recompile programs that only read the file opened under
LVLCHK(*NO). Of course, people's interpretation of the word "safe" will
vary.

In short, I think your colleagues were right to overrule you in this
case.

Dave Kahn - TCO, Tengiz, Kazakstan
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         dkahn@cix.compulink.co.uk  (from  October 1st)
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