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RE: Question about variable length fields

In retrospective, "Ditto" would have saved me a lot of typing.

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De: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] En nombre de Brian Johnson
Enviado el: Martes, 24 de Noviembre de 2009 05:25 p.m.
Para: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Asunto: Re: Question about variable length fields

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:09 PM, John Allen <jallen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is there any easy way to change the physical file and get the field
length
set to the length of the actual data in the field as opposed to the
old
fixed length?


Care to try a little SQL?

update file-name set field-name = trim( field-name )

If you have SQL developer kit installed, you can run that statement in
STRSQL. Otherwise put it in a source member and run with RUNSQLSTM.


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