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Troy wrote: >Could some please give me a code snippet of how to rename 2 fields out of a >record format using >the D specs instead of the I specs. Thanks a bunch Mark replied, and Bob clarified: >The example that Mark sent is close to correct, he omitted the "E" in >column 22 (I think?) so the example should be like this: > >> D xternalDS E DS extName(FileName) >> D field1 E extFLD(newField1) >> D field2 E extFLD(newField2) Actually, the new field names should be coded in positions 7-21. The parameter for keyword EXTFLD is the external field name. Troy: Exactly what are you trying to accomplish? Renaming fields on the D-Spec as shown does not have the same effect as renaming fields on I-Specs. If you code the ext-desc data structure, your I/O operations will still use the fields named in the DDS, and not these renamed fields in an EDS. If you want to read from an ext-desc file and have the data moved into variables with different names than defined in the DDS, I believe the only way is by coding the renames on I-Specs. Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
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