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Hi Darryl,

If you use parenthesis around the key on the CHAIN (even if it's one field) you *should* be able to chain with it.

-mark

On 10/3/2019 12:41 PM, a4g atl wrote:
Thanks to Birgitta, the derived index has worked.

The problem is with keyed fields which cannot be used for chaining.

Thanks all.

Darryl.


On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 7:40 PM Jon Paris<jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just compile the RPG400 program with *VARCHAR specified as a parameter to
CVTOPT on the compile commend. It will bring the field into the program.
Check the manual - page 247 in my copy.

P.S. Convert the damned program - if the programmer can't understand basic
RPG IV then he sure as hell can't understand RPG400! RPG IV in its base
form is a superset of RPG400 - there's nothing to learn. To refuse to
learns just pathetic.



On Oct 2, 2019, at 1:25 PM, a4g atl<a4ginatl2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a situation where I have a key field that was defined by mistake
as
a variable length field. This is not a problem for ILE programs but it is
not allowed for a OPM RPG program where we need to add a new file to the
RPG code.

I am trying to see if its possible to convert the field to a fixed length
field in a logical file?

Does anyone have some feedback?

TIA

Darryl Freinkel.
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