Re: DDS field reference

[CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

  Any number of ways to effect that, but not very directly with the DDS 
compiler itself.  I had actually seen something similar which was 
implemented with a separate data dictionary from which the DDS was 
generated; I do not recall the software.  The simplest means to use the 
DDS compiler to assist might be to use the GENLVL(0) to generate the 
expanded listing [as an effective precompiler source output] to avoid 
actually creating the database *FILE object, then using that expanded 
listing output for target of update requests [e.g. using the SQL UPDATE 
using REPLACE() scalar] to generate a modified DDS from which to effect 
the actual\intended CRTPF [or CRTLF] result.

Regards, Chuck

On 27 Jun 2012 11:39, Stone, Joel wrote:
> Is it possible to define a field by referencing another field, but
> changing the prefix of the COLHDG, TEXT, and ALIAS?
>
>             newfield  R               REFFLD(oldfield)
> * replacing 'xxxxx' with 'A1234-' in each of the below:
>                                       COLHDG('xxxxx' 'COMMODITY DESC')
>                                       TEXT('xxxxx COMMODITY DESC')
>                                       ALIAS(xxxxx_COMMODITY_DESC)
>
> This sure would be useful for us.